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Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording

Hardback

Main Details

Title Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tim Anderson
SeriesCommerce and Mass Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Category/GenreVariety shows, music hall and cabaret
ISBN/Barcode 9780816645176
ClassificationsDewey:781.490973
Audience
Undergraduate
Illustrations 10 halftones

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 1 December 2005
Publication Country United States

Description

The period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Tim Anderson analyzes three sites of this music revolution: the change from a business centered around live performances to one based on selling records, the custom of simultaneously bringing out multiple versions of the same song, and the arrival of inhome high-fidelity stereo systems.

Author Biography

Tim J. Anderson is assistant professor of communication at Denison University.