Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music recording, 1900-1960
Title:
Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music recording, 1900-1960
JLCTITLE245:
Peter Doyle.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
Physical Description:
293 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780819567949
9780819567932
Series:
Series Title:
Music/culture
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274), discography (p. 275-277), and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Harnessing the echo -- "Way out there" : hillbilly, blues, and jazz -- "Blue shadows on the trail" : space and place in the imagined West -- "And as the sun sinks slowly in the west . . ." : sobbing guitars, distant horizons, and the acoustics of otherness -- "How near, how far?" : inner voices, weird space, and the ghostly West -- "Off the wall" : blues recording at Sun and Chess studios, 1947-1954 -- "Train I ride . . ." : rock 'n' roll echo -- "Train kept a rollin'" : popular music's new territories -- Conclusion : "Race with the devil."