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"When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial-the quintessential accessory for the "me" generation. In Pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2017.
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| Colección: | Object lessons.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Novelty : Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute ; Trapping sound ; The Walkman's fathers ; The case of Andreas Pavel ; Invention or evolution? ; Enter the Walkman ; "The thinking man's box" ; The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins : "Outside of reality"
- Norm : Hear muffs and baladeurs ; Symbol of the 1980s ; A public health problem ; Death by Walkman ; "Home taping is killing music" ; "First, drug abuse; now, earphone abuse" ; "There is no such thing as society" ; A nonstop masturbational fantasy ; Fondalepsy and Walkman's oblivion ; Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars ; "Remember Pearl Harbor" ; The management of everyday life ; A listening, enjoying unit ; What would Miss Manners say?
- Nostalgia : Music wants to be free ; The iPod arrives ; Whatever happened to Sony? ; From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs ; "I only listen to cassettes" ; Why the analog nostalgia? ; Revenge of the Walkman ; A force that bends logic.