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Listening Devices - Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era (Hardcover)
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Listening Devices - Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era (Hardcover)
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From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed
listening to music. Small and large single records, new kinds of
jukeboxes and loudspeaker systems not only made it possible to
playback music in a different way, they also evidence a fundamental
transformation of music and listening itself. Taking the media and
machines through which listening took place during this period,
Listening Devices develops a new history of listening.Although
these devices were (and often still are) easily accessible, up to
now we have no concept of them. To address this gap, this volume
proposes the term "listening device." In conjunction with this
concept, the book develops an original and fruitful method for
exploring listening as a historical subject that has been
increasingly organized in relation to technology. Case studies of
four listening devices are the points of departure for the
analysis, which leads the reader down unfamiliar paths, traversing
the popular sound worlds of 1950s rock 'n' roll culture and the
disco and club culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Despite all the
characteristics specific to the different listening devices, they
can nevertheless be compared because of the fundamental
similarities they share: they model and manage listening, they
actively mediate between the listener and the music heard, and it
is this mediation that brings both listener and the music listened
to into being. Ultimately, however, the intention is that the
listening devices themselves should not be heard so that the music
they playback can be heard. Thus, they take the history of
listening to its very limits and confront it with its "other"-a
history of non-listening. The book proposes "listening device" as a
key concept for sound studies, popular music studies, musicology,
and media studies. With this conceptual key, a new, productive
understanding of past music and sound cultures of the pre-digital
era can be unlocked, and, not least, of the listening culture of
the digital present.
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