Electric sounds : technological change and the rise of corporate mass media /

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Focuses on the innovations in the electronic production and transmission of sound in the 1920s and '30s and their explosive impact on the American mass media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wurtzler, Steve J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Series:Film and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Mass media > Technological innovations > United States > History > 20th century.
Mass media > Ownership > United States > History > 20th century.
Sound > Recording and reproducing > History > 20th century.
Médias > Innovations > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médias > Propriété > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction > Histoire > 20e siècle.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Mass media > Ownership.
Mass media > Technological innovations.
Sound > Recording and reproducing.
Schallaufzeichnung
Tonfilm
Hörfunk
Radio.
Geluidsfilms.
Reclame-industrie.
Tonfilm > USA > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
Radio > USA > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
Massenmedien > Technischer Fortschritt > USA > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
USA > Tonfilm > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
USA > Radio > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
USA > Massenmedien > Technischer Fortschritt > Geschichte > 1920-1940.
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Technological innovation and the consolidation of corporate power
  • Announcing technological change
  • From performing the recorded to dissimulating the machine
  • Making sound media meaningful: commerce, culture, politics
  • Transcription versus signification: competing paradigms for representing with sound
  • Conclusions/Reverberations.

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