Book ID: CBB001213164

Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP (2013)

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Horning, Susan Schmidt (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2013
Language: English


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 320 pp.

Philip B. Scranton, Series Editor Published with the assistance of the Hagley Museum and Library In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first practical devices to the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting the technical development of studio equipment, the professionalization of recording engineers, and the growing collaboration between artists and technicians, she shows how the earliest efforts to capture the sound of live performances eventually resulted in a trend toward studio creations that extended beyond live shows, ultimately reversing the historic relationship between live and recorded sound. A former performer herself, Schmidt Horning draws from a wealth of original oral interviews with major labels and independent recording engineers, producers, arrangers, and musicians, as well as memoirs, technical journals, popular accounts, and sound recordings. Recording engineers and producers, she finds, influenced technological and musical change as they sought to improve the sound of records. By investigating the complex relationship between sound engineering and popular music, she reveals the increasing reliance on technological intervention in the creation as well as in the reception of music. The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.

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Review Millard, Andre (2015) Review of "Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP". American Historical Review (pp. 261-262). unapi

Review Zak, Albin, III (2014) Review of "Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP". Journal of American History (pp. 904-905). unapi

Review Turchetti, Simone (2015) Review of "Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 187-188). unapi

Review Krebs, Stefan (2015) Review of "Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 206-207). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hui, Alexandra
Barbieri, Patrizio
Hiebert, Elfrieda
Jackson, Myles W.
Klotz, Sebastian
Krebs, Stefan
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Duke University Press
MIT Press
Springer Science + Business Media
University of California Press
Concepts
Music
Sound reproduction
Technology and music
Acoustics
Science and music
Sound
People
Carey, William M.
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer
Koenig, Karl Rudolph
Mao, Zedong
Stumpf, Carl
Burney, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
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United States
China
France
Germany
London (England)
England
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