Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960

by Peter Doyle

Book Overview

Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes. Author Peter Doyle traces the development of these acoustically-created worlds from the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus to the dramatic acoustic architectures of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567949
• ISBN13: 9780819567949
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"