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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David MortonPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780813527475ISBN 10: 0813527473 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 December 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Introduction High culture, high fidelity, and the making of recordings in the American record industry The end of the ""canned music"" debate in American broadcasting ""Girls or machine?"": gender, labor, office dictation, and the failure of recording culture The message on the answering machine: recording and interpersonal communication The tape recorder, home entertainment, and the roots of American recording culture"Reviews"Off the Record is a novel and exciting look at the relationship of technology and culture in an area which touches our everyday lives. --Andre Millard ""History Department, University of Alabama, Birmingham"" The most fascinating aspect of Off the Record involves tracing the complex paths by which devices that are now commonplace originally came into being, gained markets, and slowly evolved. Each chapter is filled with brave hopes, false starts, mistaken social assumptions, and solutions that were almost, but not quite, right. Morton does a fine job of demonstrating multiple contingencies in the by-no-means-certain evolution of now-familiar technologies. --Jeffrey L. Meikle ""American Studies, University of Texas at Austin""" "Off the Record is a novel and exciting look at the relationship of technology and culture in an area which touches our everyday lives. --Andre Millard ""History Department, University of Alabama, Birmingham"" The most fascinating aspect of Off the Record involves tracing the complex paths by which devices that are now commonplace originally came into being, gained markets, and slowly evolved. Each chapter is filled with brave hopes, false starts, mistaken social assumptions, and solutions that were almost, but not quite, right. Morton does a fine job of demonstrating multiple contingencies in the by-no-means-certain evolution of now-familiar technologies.--Jeffrey L. Meikle ""American Studies, University of Texas at Austin""" Author InformationDAVID MORTON is research historian for the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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