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The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction  Cover Image E-book E-book

The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction / Jonathan Sterne.

Summary:

Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0822384256
  • ISBN: 1282920502
  • ISBN: 6612920505
  • ISBN: 9780822384250
  • ISBN: 9781282920507
  • ISBN: 9786612920509
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 450 pages) : illustrations
  • Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:july.24
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-436) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Machines to hear for them -- Techniques of listening -- Audible technique and media -- Plastic aurality: technologies into media -- The social genesis of sound fidelity -- A resonant tomb -- Conclusion: Audible futures.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:
English.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Popular culture.
Sound in mass media.
Sound recording industry > Social aspects.
Sound recordings > Social aspects.
Sound > Recording and reproducing > History.
Popular Culture
Culture populaire.
Enregistrements sonores > Aspect social.
Enregistrements sonores > Industrie > Aspect social.
Son dans les médias.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction > Histoire.
Klangerzeugung
Kultur
popular culture.
Popular culture.
Popular culture
Schallaufzeichnung
Sound in mass media.
Sound in mass media
Sound recording industry > Social aspects.
Sound recording industry > Social aspects
Sound recordings > Social aspects.
Sound recordings > Social aspects
Sound > Recording and reproducing
Sound > Recording and reproducing > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Electrical.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Geluidsweergave.
Populaire cultuur.
Sociale aspecten.
Technische vernieuwing.
Genre: Art sonore.
History
sound art.
Sound art.


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