 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
A MATERIAL HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RECORDING |
| By: |
Colin Symes |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£28.00 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0819567213 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780819567215 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2004 |
| Series: |
Music Culture S. |
| Pages: |
340 |
| Description: |
Record albums are more than records; they include covers and liner notes, catalogs, magazines, and advertisements. In this study of the materials that surround LPs and CDs, Colin Symes undertakes a cultural history of the record. |
| Synopsis: |
Record albums are more than records; they include covers and liner notes, catalogs, magazines, and advertisements. In this fascinating study of the materials that surround LPs and CDs, Colin Symes undertakes a cultural history of the record, looking specifically at the way the phonograph helped democratize classical music by enabling it to be heard at home, away from the concert hall. Symes argues that the listening habits associated with classical records and recording were produced and naturalized through a magazine culture, which conveyed the idea that collecting and listening to records were legitimate pastimes for the general public. The first chapter lays out a textual theory of the phonograph and compact disc, while subsequent chapters look critically and historically at the different components of the recording process: covers and cover notes, the rhetoric of the record review, the influence of recording on performance, the domestication of the concert hall, advertising in the record industry, and even the architecture of record shops. Symes's pathbreaking history will engage anyone with an interest in classical music and recording. |
| Illustrations: |
41 illus., 2 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Wesleyan University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|