Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording

by Tim Anderson

The period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Tim Anderson analyzes three sites of this music revolution: the change from a business centered around live performances to one based on selling records, the custom of simultaneously bringing out multiple versions of the same song, and the arrival of in-home high-fidelity stereo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645183
• ISBN13: 9780816645183
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"