Taylor / Katz / Grajeda Music, Sound, and Technology in America

A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9391-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Timothy D.

Katz, Mark

Grajeda, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction: Music Technologies in Everyday Life / Timothy D. Taylor 1
Part 1. Sound Recording
Introduction / Mark Katz 11
Sound Recording: Readings 29
Predictions 29
The Listener and the Phonograph 44
Learning to Listen 44
The Phonograph in Everyday Life 48
The Phonograph and Music Appreciation 65
Men, Women, and Phonographs 70
Music and the Great War 78
Performers and the Phonograph 84
In the Recording Studio 84
The Phonograph and Music Pedagogy 94
The Phonograph and the Composer 104
The Composer in the Machine Age 104
The Phonograph as a Compositional Tool 110
Phonograph Debates 113
Con 113
Pro 126
Part II. Cinema
Introduction / Tony Grajeda 137
Cinema: Readings 145
Technologies of Sight and Sound 145
Sounds of the Cinema: Illustrated Song Slides; The Role of the Voice (lecturers, actors); Incidental Musics, Special Effects, Ballyhoo, and Noise of the Audience 153
Playing to the Pictures 173
Performative Accompaniment 173
The Organist of the Picture Palace 192
Conducting and Scoring to the Movies 200
Taste, Culture, and Educating the Public 212
Responding to the Talkies 226
Part III. Radio
Introduction / Timothy D. Taylor 239
Radio: Readings 255
Radio as Dream, Radio as Technology 255
Early Broadcasts: Performer and Listener Impressions 266
Radio in Everyday Life 275
Healing 279
Economics of Radio Broadcasting 285
Advertising 288
Music on the Radio 301
Con 301
Pro 305
What Do Listeners Want? 311
Crooning 316
Radio Behind the Scenes 324
Getting on the Air 324
Talent 340
Production behind the Scenes 344
Composing for the Radio 354
How to Listen to Music on the Radio 361
Notes 367
References 387
Index 399

Über Autor(innen)

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.