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Please note the publication of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A
Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Duke
University Press).
This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the
development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These
three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late
nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the
technologies were thoroughly integrated into everyday life. There are more
than
120 selections between the collection's first piece, an article on the
phonograph written by Thomas Edison in 1878, and its last, a column
advising listeners
"desirous of gaining more from music as presented by the radio."
Among the selections are articles from popular and trade publications,
advertisements, fan letters, corporate records, fiction, and sheet music.
Taken
together, the selections capture how the new sound technologies were
shaped by
developments such as urbanization, the increasing value placed on leisure
time,
and the rise of the advertising industry. Most importantly, they depict the
ways that the new sound technologies were received by real people in
particular
places and moments in time.
About The Author(s)
Timothy D. Taylor is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at
the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sounds
of
Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture and Beyond
Exoticism: Western Music and the World, which is also published by Duke
University Press.
Mark Katz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology
Has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop
DJ.
Tony Grajeda is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department
of
English at the University of Central Florida. He is an editor of Lowering
the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound.
"Filled with great selections, Music,
Sound, and Technology in America is a salutary addition to a media studies
literature lacking in such sourcebooks. It provides a ready-made trove of
primary source material to use in classroom discussions of historical
interpretation and methodology. In addition, by juxtaposing materials on
diverse aspects of sound, the editors avoid the persistent habit of
segmenting
sound studies by medium or mode."‹Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3:
The Meaning of a Format
For more information, and to order the book directly
from Duke University Press, please visit
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16056.
Auxiliary website: http://www.musicsoundtech.org/Home_Page.html
Tony Grajeda
Associate professor of cultural studies
Department of English
Colbourn Hall, 405
University of Central Florida
PO Box 161346
Orlando, FL 32816-1346
(407) 823-2212
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