The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

Jonathan Sterne

472 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, schola...

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