Alex Sayf Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199858224
- eISBN:
- 9780190254520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199858224.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter focuses on the united front put up by composers, musicians, and record labels against the common foe of rampant piracy. It considers the Supreme Court's endorsement of the new property ...
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This chapter focuses on the united front put up by composers, musicians, and record labels against the common foe of rampant piracy. It considers the Supreme Court's endorsement of the new property rights, which arguably impinged on the limitations of copyright set out in the Constitution. The chapter first provides an overview of copyright reforms adopted by Congress between 1955 and 1964 before turning to the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1973 case Goldstein v. California. It then examines Congress's decision to extend copyright to sound recordings before concluding with a discussion of the passage of the Sound Recording Act of 1972 and the Copyright Act of 1976.Less
This chapter focuses on the united front put up by composers, musicians, and record labels against the common foe of rampant piracy. It considers the Supreme Court's endorsement of the new property rights, which arguably impinged on the limitations of copyright set out in the Constitution. The chapter first provides an overview of copyright reforms adopted by Congress between 1955 and 1964 before turning to the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1973 case Goldstein v. California. It then examines Congress's decision to extend copyright to sound recordings before concluding with a discussion of the passage of the Sound Recording Act of 1972 and the Copyright Act of 1976.
Michael Jarrett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630588
- eISBN:
- 9781469630601
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630588.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
In histories of music and audio technologies, and particularly in narratives about jazz, record producers tend to fall by the wayside. They're seldom acknowledged and generally unknown. But without ...
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In histories of music and audio technologies, and particularly in narratives about jazz, record producers tend to fall by the wayside. They're seldom acknowledged and generally unknown. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we’d have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. This oral history—organizing interviews gathered by music scholar Michael Jarrett—tells the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums. Beginning in the mid-'30s and continuing to the present, it draws together conversations with over fifty producers, musicians, engineers, and label executives. It shines a light on the world of making jazz record albums by letting producers tell their own stories and share their experiences in creating the American jazz canon. Packed with fascinating stories and fresh perspectives on over 200 albums and artists—including legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis, as well as contemporary artists such as George Benson, Diana Krall, and Norah Jones—Pressed for All Time tells the unknown stories of the men and women who helped to shape the quintessential American sound.Less
In histories of music and audio technologies, and particularly in narratives about jazz, record producers tend to fall by the wayside. They're seldom acknowledged and generally unknown. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we’d have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. This oral history—organizing interviews gathered by music scholar Michael Jarrett—tells the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums. Beginning in the mid-'30s and continuing to the present, it draws together conversations with over fifty producers, musicians, engineers, and label executives. It shines a light on the world of making jazz record albums by letting producers tell their own stories and share their experiences in creating the American jazz canon. Packed with fascinating stories and fresh perspectives on over 200 albums and artists—including legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis, as well as contemporary artists such as George Benson, Diana Krall, and Norah Jones—Pressed for All Time tells the unknown stories of the men and women who helped to shape the quintessential American sound.
Jason Camlot
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781503605213
- eISBN:
- 9781503609716
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503605213.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early “talking records” and their significance for literature from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of ...
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Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early “talking records” and their significance for literature from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded, oral performance as its primary object of analysis and by exploring the historically specific convergences between audio recording technologies, media formats, generic forms, and the institutions and practices surrounding the literary. Opening with an argument that the earliest spoken recordings were a mediated extension of Victorian reading and elocutionary culture, Jason Camlot explains the literary significance of these pre-tape era voice artifacts by analyzing early promotional fantasies about the phonograph as a new kind of speaker, and detailing initiatives to deploy it as a pedagogical tool to heighten literary experience. Through historically-grounded interpretations of Dickens impersonators to recitations of Tennyson to T.S. Eliot’s experimental readings of “The Wasteland” and of a great variety of voices and media in between, this first critical history of the earliest literary sound recordings offers an unusual perspective on the transition from the Victorian to Modern periods and sheds new light on our own digitally mediated relationship to the past.Less
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early “talking records” and their significance for literature from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded, oral performance as its primary object of analysis and by exploring the historically specific convergences between audio recording technologies, media formats, generic forms, and the institutions and practices surrounding the literary. Opening with an argument that the earliest spoken recordings were a mediated extension of Victorian reading and elocutionary culture, Jason Camlot explains the literary significance of these pre-tape era voice artifacts by analyzing early promotional fantasies about the phonograph as a new kind of speaker, and detailing initiatives to deploy it as a pedagogical tool to heighten literary experience. Through historically-grounded interpretations of Dickens impersonators to recitations of Tennyson to T.S. Eliot’s experimental readings of “The Wasteland” and of a great variety of voices and media in between, this first critical history of the earliest literary sound recordings offers an unusual perspective on the transition from the Victorian to Modern periods and sheds new light on our own digitally mediated relationship to the past.
Joshua S. Walden
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199334667
- eISBN:
- 9780199369409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199334667.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter considers the performance and recording of rural miniatures during the first half of the twentieth century, with particular focus on recital programs and the reception of sound ...
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This chapter considers the performance and recording of rural miniatures during the first half of the twentieth century, with particular focus on recital programs and the reception of sound recordings. It explores the active roles performers played in the composition and arrangement of rural miniatures, with a detailed historical and analytical case study of Jascha Heifetz and Grigoraş Dinicu’s “Hora Staccato.” The chapter addresses the performance style that prominent violinists developed in playing rural miniatures, characterized by the use of aural tropes to evoke the sounds of folk music performance as they were typically constructed in the urban imagination. Common gestures that violinists used to project this sonic character were rough timbres, heavy downbeats, slides, accented bowings, and ornaments including trills and grace notes.Less
This chapter considers the performance and recording of rural miniatures during the first half of the twentieth century, with particular focus on recital programs and the reception of sound recordings. It explores the active roles performers played in the composition and arrangement of rural miniatures, with a detailed historical and analytical case study of Jascha Heifetz and Grigoraş Dinicu’s “Hora Staccato.” The chapter addresses the performance style that prominent violinists developed in playing rural miniatures, characterized by the use of aural tropes to evoke the sounds of folk music performance as they were typically constructed in the urban imagination. Common gestures that violinists used to project this sonic character were rough timbres, heavy downbeats, slides, accented bowings, and ornaments including trills and grace notes.
Jesse Schotter
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474424776
- eISBN:
- 9781474445009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424776.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Moving from theories of film to film itself, the third chapter contends that Citizen Kane employs the same narrative form as the novel Orson Welles wanted to adapt when he went to Hollywood, Conrad’s ...
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Moving from theories of film to film itself, the third chapter contends that Citizen Kane employs the same narrative form as the novel Orson Welles wanted to adapt when he went to Hollywood, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Both works revolve around the attempted decipherment of a deathbed phrase by multiple narrators. But Welles also derives from Conrad his concern with the relationship among speech, writing, and image, a relationship transformed by new technologies of sound recording, frequently described as akin to hieroglyphs. The innovative plot structures of Conrad and Welles seek to call attention to the ways in which the medium of the novel or of film, respectively, can uniquely express the visual and the oral, without seeking to mediate between the two.Less
Moving from theories of film to film itself, the third chapter contends that Citizen Kane employs the same narrative form as the novel Orson Welles wanted to adapt when he went to Hollywood, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Both works revolve around the attempted decipherment of a deathbed phrase by multiple narrators. But Welles also derives from Conrad his concern with the relationship among speech, writing, and image, a relationship transformed by new technologies of sound recording, frequently described as akin to hieroglyphs. The innovative plot structures of Conrad and Welles seek to call attention to the ways in which the medium of the novel or of film, respectively, can uniquely express the visual and the oral, without seeking to mediate between the two.
Mary Jeanne Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604737165
- eISBN:
- 9781621037767
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604737165.003.0019
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
This chapter examines the state of soap opera collections in three major U.S. television archives: the University of California Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; the Library of Congress Motion ...
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This chapter examines the state of soap opera collections in three major U.S. television archives: the University of California Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division; and the Paley Center for Media. Exploring the relationship of each archive with the soap opera genre shows not only how these institutions have and will continue to shape soap history, but also what these issues of preservation and the loss of soap history might tell us about the future of soaps.Less
This chapter examines the state of soap opera collections in three major U.S. television archives: the University of California Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division; and the Paley Center for Media. Exploring the relationship of each archive with the soap opera genre shows not only how these institutions have and will continue to shape soap history, but also what these issues of preservation and the loss of soap history might tell us about the future of soaps.
