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 phograph 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-10
041539113x
ISBN-13
9780415391139
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96537499
Product Key Features
Author
Lars Nyre
Format
Hardback, PAPER over Boards
Language
English
Subject
Communication & Media
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
566g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
18mm
Content Note
6 Black & White Halftones
Author Biography
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
Date of Publication
30/06/2008
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Communication & Media
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