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Setting the record straight : a material history of classical recording / Colin Symes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0819567213
  • 9780819567215
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.4909 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3790 .S97 2004
Contents:
1. Playing by the book : toward a textual theory of the phonograph -- 2. Disconcerting music : performers and composers on the record -- 3. The best seat in the house : the domestication of the concert hall -- 4. Creating the right impression : an iconography of record covers -- 5. Off the record : some notes on the sleeve -- 6. Just for the record : the narrative architecture of gramophone magazines -- 7. Compact discourse : the review of the gramophone -- 8. Keeping records in their place : collections, catalogs, libraries, and societies -- 9. Coda : the end of the record.
Review: "In this study of the materials surrounding LPs and CDs, Colin Symes undertakes a cultural history of the record, looking specifically at the way the phonograph helped democratize classical music by enabling it to be heard at home, away from the concert hall. Symes argues that the listening habits associated with classical records and recording were produced and naturalized through a magazine culture, which conveyed the idea that collecting and listening to records were legitimate pastimes. Symes's pathbreaking history will engage anyone with an interest in classical music and recording."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.

Includes discography.

1. Playing by the book : toward a textual theory of the phonograph -- 2. Disconcerting music : performers and composers on the record -- 3. The best seat in the house : the domestication of the concert hall -- 4. Creating the right impression : an iconography of record covers -- 5. Off the record : some notes on the sleeve -- 6. Just for the record : the narrative architecture of gramophone magazines -- 7. Compact discourse : the review of the gramophone -- 8. Keeping records in their place : collections, catalogs, libraries, and societies -- 9. Coda : the end of the record.

"In this study of the materials surrounding LPs and CDs, Colin Symes undertakes a cultural history of the record, looking specifically at the way the phonograph helped democratize classical music by enabling it to be heard at home, away from the concert hall. Symes argues that the listening habits associated with classical records and recording were produced and naturalized through a magazine culture, which conveyed the idea that collecting and listening to records were legitimate pastimes. Symes's pathbreaking history will engage anyone with an interest in classical music and recording."--BOOK JACKET.

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