Sound Media: From Live Journalism to Music Recording [With CD (Audio)]

ISBN-13: 9780415391139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 228 str.

Lars Nyre

Opis

Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the twentieth century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and works back to the archaic soundscapes of the 1870s. The first part of the book devotes five chapters to contemporary digital media, and presents the internet, the personal computer, digital radio (news and talk) and various types of loudspeaker media (muzak, DJ-ing, clubbing and PA systems). The second part examines the historical accumulation of techniques and sounds in sound media, and presents multitrack music in the 1960s, the golden age of radio in the 1950s and back to the 1930s, microphone recording of music in the 1930s, the experimental phase of wireless radio in the 1910s and 1900s, and the invention of the gramophone and phonograph in the late nineteenth century. Sound Media includes a soundtrack CD with thirty-six examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sarah Cox, and is richly illustrated with figures, timelines and technical drawings.

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Everyday life is full of soundscapes created by professionals. Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the 20th century. Lars Nyre presents the contemporary cultural engagements in the field of sound studies, and works back from the soundscapes of the present day to the 1870s.

Sound Media is a book for media students and scholars, music lovers and media pundits, as well as journalists, musicians, and audio engineers. It contains a soundtrack CD with 36 examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sarah Cox, and is richly illustrated with figures, timelines and technical drawings.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Soundtrack  Figures  1. Theoretical Introduction to Sound Media  Part I: The Present Time  2. The Acoustic Computer. Nervous experiments with Sound Media  3. Synthetic Music. Digital Recording in Great Detail  4. The Mobile Public. Journalism for Urban Navigators  5. Phone Radio. Personality Journalism in Voice Alone  6. Loudspeaker Living. Pop Music is Everywhere  Part II: Backwards History  7. Tape Control. A Revolution in Music Recording 1970s – 1950s  8. The Acoustic Nation. Live Journalism 1960s – 1930s  9. Microphone Moods. Music Recording 1940s – 1930s  10. The Live Public. Experiments in Broadcasting 1920s – 1900s  11. The Repeating Machine.  Music Recording 1920s – 1870s.  Literature.  Soundtrack Supplement.  Index

O autorze

Lars Nyre is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen and Volda University College, Norway. He is chair of the research network Digital Radio Cultures in Europe (www.drace.org) and has published articles about mass media in research journals including Journalism Studies and the Journal of Radio and Audio Media