Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and is author of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Susan Strasser is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.

• Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense-David SuismanPART I: AFFECT AND THE POLITICS OF LISTENING1. Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s-David Goodman2. ''Her Voice a Bullet'': Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II-Ann Elizabeth Pfau and David Hochfelder3. ''Savage Dissonance'': Gender, Voice, and Women's Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930-1945-Christine EhrickPART II: SONIC OBJECTS4. Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952-Alex Cummings5. High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950-1961-Eric D. BarryPART III: HEARING ORDER6. Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II-Derek W. Vaillant7. An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s-Angela M. BlakePART IV: SOUND COMMERCE8. ''The People's Orchestra'': Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s-Chris Rasmussen9. Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio-Bill Kirkpatrick10. The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States-Michael StammNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"This collection sets in relief the political economy of sound-from record players to radios-in the twentieth century, but the authors also treat the ancillary participants, including music critics, advertising agencies, editors and writers of newspapers, lawyers, and radio performers. It is multicultural historical analysis at its best." (Journal of American History)