Stage to Studio

Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950

James P. Kraft (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2004
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7742-1 (ISBN)

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Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, technology transformed the entertainment industry as much as it did such heavy industries as coal and steel. Among those most directly affected were musicians, who had to adapt to successive inventions and refinements in audio technology-from wax cylinders and gramophones to radio and sound films. In this groundbreaking study, James P. Kraft explores the intersection of sound technology, corporate power, and artistic labor during this disruptive period. Kraft begins in the late nineteenth century's "golden age" of musicians, when demand for skilled instrumentalists often exceeded supply, analyzing the conflicts in concert halls, nightclubs, recording studios, radio stations, and Hollywood studios as musicians began to compete not only against their local counterparts but also against highly skilled workers in national "entertainment factories." Kraft offers an illuminating case study in the impact of technology on industry and society-and a provocative chapter in the cultural history of America.

James P. Kraft is associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Working Scales in Industrial America
Chapter 2. Boom and Bust in Early Movie Theaters
Chapter 3. Encountering Records and Radio
Chapter 4. Playing in Hollywood Between the Wars
Chapter 5. Rising Militancy
Chapter 6. Recording Ban
Chapter 7. Balancing Success and Failure
Conclusion
Appendix. AFM Membership, 1896–1956
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2004
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Industry and Society
Zusatzinfo	26 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8018-7742-3 / 0801877423
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-7742-1 / 9780801877421
Zustand	Neuware