| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
293 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music/culture
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Music/culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274), discography (pages 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." |
| Subject |
Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- History.
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Sound recordings -- Production and direction. |
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History. |
| ISBN |
0819567949 paperback alkaline paper |
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0819567930 cloth alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780819567932 |
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9780819567949 |
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