Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945.
Başlık:
Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945.
Yazar:
Kenney, William Howland.
ISBN:
9780198026044
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (279 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Introduction: Recorded Music and Collective Memory -- 1 Two "Circles of Resonance": Audience Uses of Recorded Music -- 2 "The Coney Island Crowd": The Phonograph and Popular Recordings before World War I -- 3 "His Master's Voice": The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph -- 4 The Phonograph and the Evolution of "Foreign" and "Ethnic" Records -- 5 The Gendered Phonograph: Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930 -- 6 African American Blues and the Phonograph: From Race Records to Rhythm and Blues -- 7 Economics and the Invention of Hillbilly Records in the South -- 8 A Renewed Flow of Memories: The Depression and the Struggle over "Hit Records" -- 9 Popular Recorded Music within the Context of National Life -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
Here, Kenney examines the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound--from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry became more complex and less powerful. He argues that the phonograph and the recording industry served neither to impose a preference for high culture nor a degraded popular taste, but rather expressed a diverse set of sensibilities whereby various sorts of people found pleasure. As detailed in this study, recorded music provided the focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard and expressed important dimensions of their personal lives by way of their involvement with records and record-players.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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