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Making Easy Listening - Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (Hardcover)
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Making Easy Listening - Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (Hardcover)
Series: Commerce and Mass Culture
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The period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s saw the
American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in
how music was produced and experienced. Tim Anderson analyzes three
sites of this music revolution: the change from a business centered
around live performances to one based on selling records, the
custom of simultaneously bringing out multiple versions of the same
song, and the arrival of in-home high-fidelity stereo systems.
"Making Easy Listening" presents a social and cultural history of
the contentious, diverse, and experimental culture of musical
production and enjoyment that aims to understand how recording
technologies fit into and influence musicians', as well as
listeners', lives. With attention to the details of what it means
to play a particular record in a distinct cultural context,
Anderson connects neglected genres of the musical canon--classical
and easy listening music, Broadway musicals, and sound effects
records--with the development of sound aesthetics and technical
music practices that leave an indelible imprint on individuals.
Tracing the countless impacts that this period of innovation
exacted on the mass media, Anderson reveals how an examination of
this historical era--and recorded music as an object--furthers a
deeper understanding of the present-day American music industry.
Tim J. Anderson is assistant professor of communication at Denison
University.
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