Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music recording, 1900-1960 /
Peter Doyle.
- 1st ed.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
- 293 p. ; 24 cm.
- Music/culture .
- Music/culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274), discography (p. 275-277), and index.
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."
Popular music--History and criticism. Sound recordings--Production and direction--History. Musique populaire--Histoire et critique. Enregistrements sonores--Production et r�ealisation--Histoire. Popmuziek. Geluidsopnamen.