Chasing Sound

Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP

Susan Schmidt Horning (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2016
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-1848-3 (ISBN)

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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. 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.

Susan Schmidt Horning is an associate professor of history at St. John's University in New York and a contributor to Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Capturing Sound in the Acoustic Era
2. The Studio Electrifies
3. A Passion for Sound
4. When High Fidelity Was New
5. Control Men in Technological Transition
6. The Search for the Sound
7. Channeling Sound
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Industry and Society
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4214-1848-7 / 1421418487
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-1848-3 / 9781421418483
Zustand	Neuware