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Making easy listening [electronic resource] : material culture and postwar American recording / Tim J. Anderson.

By: Anderson, Tim J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Commerce and mass culture series: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006Description: xliv, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Sound recording industry -- United States -- History | Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- United States | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 781.490973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

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).

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.