David Morton

Off the Record

The Technology & Culture of Sound Recording in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Morton (research historian for the IEEE History Center at Rutgers U.) examines the process of invention, innovation, and diffusion of communications technology in the development of the phonograph record, recording for radio, the dictation machine, the telephone answering machine, and home taping.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780813527475
• ISBN-10: 0813527473
• Artikelnr.: 21720269

Autorenporträt

DAVID MORTON is research historian for the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
High culture, high fidelity, and the making of recordings in the American
record industry
The end of the "canned music" debate in American broadcasting
"Girls or machine?": gender, labor, office dictation, and the failure of
recording culture
The message on the answering machine: recording and interpersonal
communication
The tape recorder, home entertainment, and the roots of American recording
culture