Doyle, Peter, 1951-

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."

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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.

ML 3470 / .D69 2005