Making easy listening : material culture and postwar American recording / Tim J. Anderson.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Commerce and mass culture series.
Main Author: Anderson, Tim J.
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Commerce and mass culture series.
Subjects:
Sound recording industry > United States > History.
Sound recordings > Production and direction > United States.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xliv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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).