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1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations, music |
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General Introduction: Music Technologies in Everyday Life / Timothy D. Taylor -- Part I. Sound Recording -- Introduction / Mark Katz -- Sound Recording: Readings -- Predictions -- The Listener and the Phonograph -- Learning to Listen -- The Phonograph in Everyday Life -- The Phonograph and Music Appreciation -- Men, Women, and Phonographs -- Music and the Great War -- Performers and the Phonograph -- In the Recording Studio -- The Phonograph and Music Pedagogy -- The Phonograph and the Composer -- The Composer in the Machine Age -- The Phonograph as a Compositional Tool -- Phonograph Debates -- Con -- Pro. |
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Part II. Cinema -- Introduction / Tony Grajeda -- Cinema: Readings -- Technologies of Sight and Sound -- Sounds of the Cinema: Illustrated Song Slides -- The Role of the Voice (lecturers, actors) -- Incidental Musics, Special Effects, Ballyhoo, and Noise of the Audience -- Playing to the Pictures -- Performative Accompaniment -- The Organist of the Picture Palace -- Conducting and Scoring to the Movies -- Taste, Culture, and Educating the Public -- Responding to the Talkies. |
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Part III. Radio -- Introduction / Timothy D. Taylor -- Radio: Readings -- Radio as Dream, Radio as Technology -- Early Broadcasts: Performer and Listener Impressions -- Radio in Everyday Life -- Healing -- Economics of Radio Broadcasting -- Advertising -- Music on the Radio -- Con -- Pro -- What Do Listeners Want? -- Crooning -- Radio behind the Scenes -- Getting on the Air -- Talent -- Production behind the Scenes -- Composing for the Radio -- How to Listen to Music on the Radio -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
ISBN |
9780822393917 (electronic bk.) |
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0822393913 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822349273 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0822349272 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780822349464 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822349469 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Standard no. |
9786613721075 |
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