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

ISBN-13: 9780415391146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str.

Lars Nyre

Opis

From MP3 to Marconi, this thorough and up-to-date history of sound media works backwards from the present day to the 1870s to explore the development of sound media in ten chapters.

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