At the vanguard of vinyl: a cultural history of the long-playing record in jazz

"At the Vanguard of Vinyl is a cultural history of the long-playing record (LP), centered primarily on the sonic entanglements of record making in the 1950s jazz industry. Exploring the choices made while performing, recording, producing, designing, and circulating music on record, Darren Muell...

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1. Verfasser: Mueller, Darren 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"At the Vanguard of Vinyl is a cultural history of the long-playing record (LP), centered primarily on the sonic entanglements of record making in the 1950s jazz industry. Exploring the choices made while performing, recording, producing, designing, and circulating music on record, Darren Mueller destabilizes the idea of jazz recordings as a simple passive playback medium. The book highlights the strategies and contexts informing the making of records, focusing especially on how Black musicians found agency and control within the racialized practices of an industry that systematically disadvantaged them. Mueller tells the multilayered story of these Black cultural producers through chapters examining contestations over recording format, the reorientation of race within the record business, new forms of technological mediation, and the codification of jazz's historical narrative. Demonstrating how jazz LPs are historically situated by audio production methodologies, social structures, and cultural schema, Mueller unpacks relationships between sound and culture, technology and power, and mediation and cultural agency"--
Beschreibung:xi, 435 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9781478030072
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