Chasing sound : technology, culture, and the art of studio recording from Edison to the LP / Susan Schmidt Horning.
2013
ML3790 .S346 2013eb
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Title
Chasing sound : technology, culture, and the art of studio recording from Edison to the LP / Susan Schmidt Horning.
Author
Schmidt Horning, Susan.
ISBN
9781421410234 (electronic book)
9781421410227
9781421410227
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
ML3790 .S346 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.490973
Summary
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. A former performer herself, 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 [Publisher description]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Studies in industry and society.
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Table of Contents
Capturing sound in the acoustic era : recording professionals and clever mechanics
The studio electrifies : radio, recording, and the birth of the small studio business
A passion for sound : amateur recordists, the Audio Engineering Society, and the evolution of a profession
When fidelity was new : the studio as intstrument
Control men in technological transition : engineering the performance in the age of high fidelity
The search for the sound : rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the rise of the independents
Channeling sound : technology, control, and fixing it in the mix.
The studio electrifies : radio, recording, and the birth of the small studio business
A passion for sound : amateur recordists, the Audio Engineering Society, and the evolution of a profession
When fidelity was new : the studio as intstrument
Control men in technological transition : engineering the performance in the age of high fidelity
The search for the sound : rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the rise of the independents
Channeling sound : technology, control, and fixing it in the mix.