James P Kraft
Biographic Data
| ID | 706398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James P Kraft |
| GIVEN NAMES | James P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraft |
| SIGNATURE | KRAFT J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contested and Dangerous Sea: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
In this concise, engaging study, Colin J. Davis explores the history of a neglected group of workers—transatlantic fishermen. The study compares the problems and political activities of New England and British fishermen after World War II, when foreign competition and technological innovations threatened the men's livelihoods as well as the health of Atlantic Ocean fisheries. Fishermen's trade unions and wives helped to confront these threats, wi…
Ronald D. Cohen. Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific: The Labors of Empire by Evan Lampe
Scholars have long explored history “from the bottom up,” but relatively few have embraced that approach to examine workers in the Pacific during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this interesting albeit less than stellar study, Evan Lampe looks at many occupational groups whose labor helped form an American empire. As the author makes clear, these groups were part of an international working class whose experiences and outlo…
Jean-Christian Vinel. The Employee: A Political History
Corporate executives have found myriad ways of undermining the power of American workers and their unions. In this well-researched book, Jean-Christian Vinel shows that one of management's most successful strategies for disempowering labor has been to classify workers as “supervisors” rather than “employees,” thus making them ineligible for union membership. The rise of conservative majorities on the Supreme Court and National Labor Relations Boa…
Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (review)
Reviewed by: Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording James P. Kraft (bio) Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording. By Tim J. Anderson . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Pp. xliv+236. $22.95. The quarter-century following World War II was a remarkable period in the history of the American music industry. The rise of new technologies and new musical genres during the pos…
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (review)
Reviewed by: Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music James P. Kraft (bio) Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. By Mark Katz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+276. $49.95/$19.95. The literature on the history of sound technologies is growing increasingly nuanced and relevant. This interesting book by Mark Katz shows how such technologies have both mirrored and shaped American society. Capturing Sound…
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Thomas Edison's inventions, so successful commercially, altered the lives of all Americans in the twentieth century. Among those persons most directly affected were artists in the entertainment industry. In this groundbreaking study of musicians and the businesses of recording, broadcasting, and film, James P. Kraft shows how musicians adapted - or tried to adapt - to momentous change and the emerging nexus of corporate power, labor-union muscle,…
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Journal Article Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xii, 255 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5089-4.) Get access Burton W. Peretti Burton W. Peretti Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 6…
Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. By Susan Smulyan
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 715 no longer afford the leisure of perusing exchanged newspapers as a primary method of news gathering; the technology of the telegraph instilled a new culture of immediacy among editors and their readers. A second major factor in news commodification stemmed from the “race” among news brokers to deliver news from Europe. Here Blondheim paints a vivid picture of innovative news brokers such as Daniel Craig, th…
Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934
The “Pit” musicians: Mechanization in the movie theaters, 1926–1934
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames P. KraftThe following individuals read earlier drafts of this article and offered valuable advice: Edwin J. Perkins, Steven J. Ross, Frank D. Mitchell, Terry L. Seip, and Richard B. Jewell at the Univ. of Southern California, Robert R. Locke and I. A. Newby at the Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa, and David B. Sicilia at Harvard Univ
Musicians in Hollywood: Work and Technological Change in Entertainment Industries, 1926-1940
production revamped the labor process and capsized the traditional world of workers. While some historians have explained how laborsaving machinery simplified work tasks and reduced skill levels, others have shown how it generated demands for new skills and talents and occasionally increased rather than decreased labor's bargaining power. Still others now argue that mechanization did indeed create new skilled jobs but fragmented new craft workers…
The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender, and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911
Research Article| April 01 1988 The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender, and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911 James P. Kraft James P. Kraft Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1988) 70 (1): 43–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171292 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools…
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Journal Article Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xii, 255 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5089-4.) Get access Burton W. Peretti Burton W. Peretti Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 6…
The “Pit” musicians: Mechanization in the movie theaters, 1926–1934
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames P. KraftThe following individuals read earlier drafts of this article and offered valuable advice: Edwin J. Perkins, Steven J. Ross, Frank D. Mitchell, Terry L. Seip, and Richard B. Jewell at the Univ. of Southern California, Robert R. Locke and I. A. Newby at the Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa, and David B. Sicilia at Harvard Univ
Musicians in Hollywood: Work and Technological Change in Entertainment Industries, 1926-1940
production revamped the labor process and capsized the traditional world of workers. While some historians have explained how laborsaving machinery simplified work tasks and reduced skill levels, others have shown how it generated demands for new skills and talents and occasionally increased rather than decreased labor's bargaining power. Still others now argue that mechanization did indeed create new skilled jobs but fragmented new craft workers…
The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender, and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911
Research Article| April 01 1988 The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender, and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911 James P. Kraft James P. Kraft Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1988) 70 (1): 43–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171292 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools…
The “Pit” musicians: Mechanization in the movie theaters, 1926–1934
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames P. KraftThe following individuals read earlier drafts of this article and offered valuable advice: Edwin J. Perkins, Steven J. Ross, Frank D. Mitchell, Terry L. Seip, and Richard B. Jewell at the Univ. of Southern California, Robert R. Locke and I. A. Newby at the Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa, and David B. Sicilia at Harvard Univ
Musicians in Hollywood: Work and Technological Change in Entertainment Industries, 1926-1940
production revamped the labor process and capsized the traditional world of workers. While some historians have explained how laborsaving machinery simplified work tasks and reduced skill levels, others have shown how it generated demands for new skills and talents and occasionally increased rather than decreased labor's bargaining power. Still others now argue that mechanization did indeed create new skilled jobs but fragmented new craft workers…
Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. By Susan Smulyan
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 715 no longer afford the leisure of perusing exchanged newspapers as a primary method of news gathering; the technology of the telegraph instilled a new culture of immediacy among editors and their readers. A second major factor in news commodification stemmed from the “race” among news brokers to deliver news from Europe. Here Blondheim paints a vivid picture of innovative news brokers such as Daniel Craig, th…
Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Journal Article Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xii, 255 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5089-4.) Get access Burton W. Peretti Burton W. Peretti Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 6…
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Thomas Edison's inventions, so successful commercially, altered the lives of all Americans in the twentieth century. Among those persons most directly affected were artists in the entertainment industry. In this groundbreaking study of musicians and the businesses of recording, broadcasting, and film, James P. Kraft shows how musicians adapted - or tried to adapt - to momentous change and the emerging nexus of corporate power, labor-union muscle,…
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (review)
Reviewed by: Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music James P. Kraft (bio) Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. By Mark Katz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+276. $49.95/$19.95. The literature on the history of sound technologies is growing increasingly nuanced and relevant. This interesting book by Mark Katz shows how such technologies have both mirrored and shaped American society. Capturing Sound…
Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (review)
Reviewed by: Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording James P. Kraft (bio) Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording. By Tim J. Anderson . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Pp. xliv+236. $22.95. The quarter-century following World War II was a remarkable period in the history of the American music industry. The rise of new technologies and new musical genres during the pos…
Jean-Christian Vinel. The Employee: A Political History
Corporate executives have found myriad ways of undermining the power of American workers and their unions. In this well-researched book, Jean-Christian Vinel shows that one of management's most successful strategies for disempowering labor has been to classify workers as “supervisors” rather than “employees,” thus making them ineligible for union membership. The rise of conservative majorities on the Supreme Court and National Labor Relations Boa…
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific: The Labors of Empire by Evan Lampe
Scholars have long explored history “from the bottom up,” but relatively few have embraced that approach to examine workers in the Pacific during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this interesting albeit less than stellar study, Evan Lampe looks at many occupational groups whose labor helped form an American empire. As the author makes clear, these groups were part of an international working class whose experiences and outlo…
Ronald D. Cohen. Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Contested and Dangerous Sea: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
In this concise, engaging study, Colin J. Davis explores the history of a neglected group of workers—transatlantic fishermen. The study compares the problems and political activities of New England and British fishermen after World War II, when foreign competition and technological innovations threatened the men's livelihoods as well as the health of Atlantic Ocean fisheries. Fishermen's trade unions and wives helped to confront these threats, wi…
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