Wurtzler, Steve J.
Electric sounds technological change and the rise of corporate mass media / [electronic resource] : Steve J. Wurtzler. - New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 393 p.) : ill. - Gale virtual reference library Film and culture . - Film and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
0231136765 (alk. paper) 023151008X (electronic book) 9780231136761 (alk paper) 9780231510080 (electronic book)
Mass media and history--United States.
Mass media--Ownership--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Technological innovations--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--History.
Phonograph--History.
Radio--History.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--History--20th century.
P96.T422
302.230973
Electric sounds technological change and the rise of corporate mass media / [electronic resource] : Steve J. Wurtzler. - New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 393 p.) : ill. - Gale virtual reference library Film and culture . - Film and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
0231136765 (alk. paper) 023151008X (electronic book) 9780231136761 (alk paper) 9780231510080 (electronic book)
Mass media and history--United States.
Mass media--Ownership--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Technological innovations--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--History.
Phonograph--History.
Radio--History.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--History--20th century.
P96.T422
302.230973