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Author: Jacob Smith Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520948351 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys a diverse range of spoken word genres—including readings of classic works of literature and drama, comedy albums, children’s records, home therapy kits, even erotica—to illuminate this often overlooked aspect of the postwar entertainment industry and American culture. A viable alternative to mainstream broadcasting, records gave their listeners control over what they could hear at home. Smith shows how the savvy industry used spoken word records to develop markets for children, African Americans, women, and others not well served by radio and television.
Author: Jacob Smith Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520948351 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys a diverse range of spoken word genres—including readings of classic works of literature and drama, comedy albums, children’s records, home therapy kits, even erotica—to illuminate this often overlooked aspect of the postwar entertainment industry and American culture. A viable alternative to mainstream broadcasting, records gave their listeners control over what they could hear at home. Smith shows how the savvy industry used spoken word records to develop markets for children, African Americans, women, and others not well served by radio and television.
Author: Jacob Smith Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520267036 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
“How quickly we forget! Not so many decades ago, we were all listening to Vaughn Meader’s First Family album, Steve Martin on LP, or Columbia’s I Can Hear It Now. Alas, spoken word records, like so many aspects of phonography, have been relegated to garage sales and footnotes. Finally, thanks to Jacob Smith’s Spoken Word, this important form of entertainment and culture is receiving the attention it so richly deserves.” —Rick Altman, author of Silent Film Sound “Jacob Smith’s engaging study of spoken word LPs is as revelatory as it is welcome. No other book has so thoroughly explored a phenomenon that was unique to the 1950s and 1960s, when LPs were the only widely available medium that allowed consumers to enjoy repeated exposure to recorded material. —Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture "Smith's work contains historical material that few scholars have studied and many people have never even heard of. ... The grouping of these unique case studies results in new connections to and between various performance styles, materials, and industries." —Susan Murray, author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars
Author: Library of Congress. Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Publisher: ISBN: Category : Music for the blind Languages : en Pages : 76
Author: Linda Redmond Publisher: ISBN: Category : Self-culture Languages : en Pages : 44
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Abstract: Preschool and early childhood development, adult basic education, continuing education for various professions, and courses for personal development are all subjects for which this reference circular lists sources of spoken-world recordings. Curricular and supplemental teaching materials in language arts, social studies and other areas of elementary and high school education are sources also found in this circular, compiled from catalogs and descriptive brochures. Divided into three sections, the circular includes: alphabetical listing of areas or levels of study, names/addresses of producers and distributors, and sources of additional information about spoken-word recordings.
Author: Jacob Smith
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Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Author: Linda Redmond
Author: State Library of Pennsylvania. General Library Bureau
Author: Jacob Smith
Author: Gillian Mendle
Author: Carol Strauss
Author: Library of Congress. Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
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Author: Linda Redmond