Making easy listening : material culture and postwar American recording /

In Making Easy Listening, Tim J. Anderson analyzes the period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s that saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Anderson presents a social and cultural history of musical production t...

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Hlavní autor: Anderson, Tim J.
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2006.
Edice:Commerce and mass culture series.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttrh4
Obsah:
  • Introduction : opening tracks
  • Managing the recording process and rethinking the recording bans. Buried under the fecundity of his own creations : the first strike of the American Federation of Musicians ; Counterreform and resignation : the second strike of the American Federation of Musicians
  • Production, reproduction, and the case of My fair lady. Which voice best becomes the property? stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object
  • Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. A tale of two ears : the concert hall aesthetic and stereo ; Space, the pliable frontier : stereo as the new spatial palette of audio
  • Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).