Author | : Jessica Teague |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108840132 |
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Author | : Jessica Teague |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108840132 |
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Author | : Jessica E. Teague |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108881394 |
Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. Uncovering a rich new archive of materials, this book offers a resonant reading of how writers across several genres, such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, William S. Burroughs, and others, navigated the intermedial spaces between texts and recordings. Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.
Author | : James Lastra |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2000-07-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231505469 |
Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
Author | : Timothy D. Taylor |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2012-06-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822349469 |
This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and mediated sound. Through readings from advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, popular fiction, correspondence, and sheet music, one gains an understanding of how early-20th-century Americans changed from music makers into consumers.
Author | : Susan Schmidt Horning |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421410222 |
The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.--Emily Thompson, Princeton University "Science"
Author | : William Howland Kenney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1999-07-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0198026048 |
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--from the formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion. By examining the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the phonograph's rise and fall as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, he addresses such vital issues as the place of multiculturalism in the phonograph's history, the roles of women as record-player listeners and performers, the belated commercial legitimacy of rhythm-and-blues recordings, the "hit record" phenomenon in the wake of the Great Depression, the origins of the rock-and-roll revolution, and the shifting place of popular recorded music in America's personal and cultural memories. Throughout the book, Kenney 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 in which various sorts of people found a new kind of pleasure. To this end, Recorded Music in American Life effectively illustrates how recorded music provided the focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard, and expressed crucial dimensions of their private lives, by way of their involvement with records and record-players. Students and scholars of American music, culture, commerce, and history--as well as fans and collectors interested in this phase of our rich artistic past--will find a great deal of thorough research and fresh scholarship to enjoy in these pages.
Author | : Michael Talbot-Smith |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1136119817 |
A handy source of essential data that every sound technician needs. Whether you are a professional sound engineer, responsible for broadcast or studio recording, or a student on a music technology or sound recording course, you will find this book authoritative and easily accessible. Adapted from the comprehensive volume, the Audio Engineer's Reference Book (now in its second edition), this pocket-sized reference has been fully revised to cover the very latest technology connected with sound: Noise measurement Acoustics Microphones Loudspeakers Mixing equipment CDs, DAT, MIDI, MiniDisc Telephony ISDN Digital interfacing Ultrasonics This second edition also features: Substantial revisions of chapters on radio microphone frequencies, digital audio tape, and audio measurements. An extended list of further reading.
Author | : Melissa J. Strong |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498594786 |
American Lit Remixed identifies a new sound in literature emerging after the digital revolution. It reads works by Jennifer Egan, Sherman Alexie, and others through the lenses of remix theory -- the term Eduardo Navas coined to describe the remix as a form of artistic and cultural discourse -- and the music industry’s preoccupations with nostalgia and authenticity, arguing that digital-age fiction, poetry, and drama remix the music and technology of the past to offer new modes of connecting to self, others, and place. Musical features such as references to popular songs, structural similarities to music recordings, and thematic treatment of the riffing and borrowing endemic within popular music lend a retro sound, feel, and structure to contemporary American texts, even when they refer to life in the digital era. Through engaging with the musical past, literature resists nostalgia and remixes the twenty-first century’s dystopian, disconnected ethos to find possibility and hope for the future. Critics often focus on technology’s negative impact on the music industry, but American Lit Remixed emphasizes music as a source of creative potential in twenty-first-century literature, including new ways of storytelling and relating.
Author | : Ryan M. Brooks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316519813 |
Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.