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Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music, 1900-1960

Title
Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music, 1900-1960 / Peter Doyle.
Author
Doyle, Peter, 1951-
Publication
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.

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v, 293 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Music/culture
Subjects
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".
Call Number
*LE 05-6725
ISBN
  • 9780819567932 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0819567930 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780819567949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0819567949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005013310
OCLC
60360419
Author
Doyle, Peter, 1951-
Title
Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music, 1900-1960 / Peter Doyle.
Imprint
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Music/culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274), discography (p. 275-277), and index.
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