David Suisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 761520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Suisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Suisman |
| SIGNATURE | SUISMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age
Journal Article Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age. Get access Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 336. Paper $32.00. David Suisman David Suisman University of Delaware, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
Capitalism and the Senses
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound
This introduction to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 's special issue, "New Approaches to Music and Sound," provides a historical sketch of American music and the American soundscape at the turn of the twentieth century. It also offers a discussion of relevant historiography, taking stock of recent work in sound studies and its influence on research on music and sound of the period. Finally, it introduces the four research artic…
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville, 1889-1926
With The Original Blues Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff have completed an indispensable trilogy of works about the ascendance of African American popular entertainments from the 1890s to the 1920s. As with their two earlier books—Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (2003) and Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (2007)—this richly illustrated volume is based on d…
Afterword: Music, Sound, History
This afterword offers historiographical context for historical writing on music, stretching back to the pioneering work of Eugene Genovese and Lawrence Levine in the 1970s. For the articles in this special issue, it suggests Christopher Small’s concept of “musicking” as a useful way to think about music as social practice and proposes that these articles take on added power when read in relation to the recent scholarship on the history of the sen…
The American Environmental Movement’s Lost Victory
Political contestation over sound can take many forms, with profound consequences for the aural environment. One example is found in the battles over the sonic booms associated with the US government’s supersonic transport (SST) program in the 1960s and early 1970s—a program that had it been realized, would have filled the everyday soundscape with thunderous sonic blasts. This article analyzes the individuals and groups who mobilized against soni…
The Oklahoma City Sonic Boom Experiment and the Politics of Supersonic Aviation
In 1964, the US government conducted an experiment in which it bombarded Oklahoma City with eight sonic booms a day, every day, for six months, in order to test community reaction. The experiment was part of a large-scale program to build a supersonic transport (SST), an aircraft that would have produced sonic booms affecting many millions of people. This article explores the history of sonic booms, with special focus on the causes, contexts, and…
Jonathan Sterne. Mp3: The Meaning of a Format
Jonathan Sterne's first book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), helped launch the wave of scholarship now called sound studies, and more recently he is the editor of what may become the definitive anthology in the field, The Sound Studies Reader (2012). He is also co-editor, with Lisa Gitelman, of a new media-studies book series, “Sign, Storage, Transmission,” in which this book, MP3: The Meaning of a Format, is the…
Sound Recordings and Popular Music Histories: The Remix: Sound Recordings and Popular Music Histories
I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
A seismic transformation occurred in American music from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, argues Albin J. Zak III in I Don’t Sound like Nobody, and sound recording stood at the center of it. During those years, recordings came to occupy a new place in the social and economic relations of American music. Increasingly, popular music artists and record producers made records consciously and deliberately as records, as sonic artifice, rather than tryi…
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll: An alternative history of American popular music
"Sound, Knowledge, and the "Immanence of Human Failure
This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event (i.e., sound-in-time); the other, digital, storing and conveying in binary form information for (re)producing sound (i.e., sound-in-knowledge). Analyzing the producti…
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music
Journal Article Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music Get access David Suisman David Suisman teaches history New School University, Parsons School of Design division and at City University of New York, Queens College campus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 4, March 2004, Pages 1295–1324, http…
This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie
Journal Article “This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie.” Organized by the Woody Guthrie Archives, 250 W. 57th St., Suite 1218, New York, NY 11107, and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW, Suite 3146, Washington, DC 20560 Get access David Suisman David Suisman Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Music: Was Bessie Smith a feminist
Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Pantheon Books, 1998) I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers-Town & Country. Vol. 1, Country; Vol. 2, Town (Yazoo, 1997
"Sound, Knowledge, and the "Immanence of Human Failure
This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event (i.e., sound-in-time); the other, digital, storing and conveying in binary form information for (re)producing sound (i.e., sound-in-knowledge). Analyzing the producti…
I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
A seismic transformation occurred in American music from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, argues Albin J. Zak III in I Don’t Sound like Nobody, and sound recording stood at the center of it. During those years, recordings came to occupy a new place in the social and economic relations of American music. Increasingly, popular music artists and record producers made records consciously and deliberately as records, as sonic artifice, rather than tryi…
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound
This introduction to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 's special issue, "New Approaches to Music and Sound," provides a historical sketch of American music and the American soundscape at the turn of the twentieth century. It also offers a discussion of relevant historiography, taking stock of recent work in sound studies and its influence on research on music and sound of the period. Finally, it introduces the four research artic…
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville, 1889-1926
With The Original Blues Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff have completed an indispensable trilogy of works about the ascendance of African American popular entertainments from the 1890s to the 1920s. As with their two earlier books—Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (2003) and Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (2007)—this richly illustrated volume is based on d…
The American Environmental Movement’s Lost Victory
Political contestation over sound can take many forms, with profound consequences for the aural environment. One example is found in the battles over the sonic booms associated with the US government’s supersonic transport (SST) program in the 1960s and early 1970s—a program that had it been realized, would have filled the everyday soundscape with thunderous sonic blasts. This article analyzes the individuals and groups who mobilized against soni…
This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie
Journal Article “This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie.” Organized by the Woody Guthrie Archives, 250 W. 57th St., Suite 1218, New York, NY 11107, and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW, Suite 3146, Washington, DC 20560 Get access David Suisman David Suisman Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Music: Was Bessie Smith a feminist
Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Pantheon Books, 1998) I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers-Town & Country. Vol. 1, Country; Vol. 2, Town (Yazoo, 1997
This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie
Journal Article “This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie.” Organized by the Woody Guthrie Archives, 250 W. 57th St., Suite 1218, New York, NY 11107, and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW, Suite 3146, Washington, DC 20560 Get access David Suisman David Suisman Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music
Journal Article Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music Get access David Suisman David Suisman teaches history New School University, Parsons School of Design division and at City University of New York, Queens College campus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 4, March 2004, Pages 1295–1324, http…
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll: An alternative history of American popular music
"Sound, Knowledge, and the "Immanence of Human Failure
This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event (i.e., sound-in-time); the other, digital, storing and conveying in binary form information for (re)producing sound (i.e., sound-in-knowledge). Analyzing the producti…
Sound Recordings and Popular Music Histories: The Remix: Sound Recordings and Popular Music Histories
I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
A seismic transformation occurred in American music from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, argues Albin J. Zak III in I Don’t Sound like Nobody, and sound recording stood at the center of it. During those years, recordings came to occupy a new place in the social and economic relations of American music. Increasingly, popular music artists and record producers made records consciously and deliberately as records, as sonic artifice, rather than tryi…
Jonathan Sterne. Mp3: The Meaning of a Format
Jonathan Sterne's first book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), helped launch the wave of scholarship now called sound studies, and more recently he is the editor of what may become the definitive anthology in the field, The Sound Studies Reader (2012). He is also co-editor, with Lisa Gitelman, of a new media-studies book series, “Sign, Storage, Transmission,” in which this book, MP3: The Meaning of a Format, is the…
The American Environmental Movement’s Lost Victory
Political contestation over sound can take many forms, with profound consequences for the aural environment. One example is found in the battles over the sonic booms associated with the US government’s supersonic transport (SST) program in the 1960s and early 1970s—a program that had it been realized, would have filled the everyday soundscape with thunderous sonic blasts. This article analyzes the individuals and groups who mobilized against soni…
The Oklahoma City Sonic Boom Experiment and the Politics of Supersonic Aviation
In 1964, the US government conducted an experiment in which it bombarded Oklahoma City with eight sonic booms a day, every day, for six months, in order to test community reaction. The experiment was part of a large-scale program to build a supersonic transport (SST), an aircraft that would have produced sonic booms affecting many millions of people. This article explores the history of sonic booms, with special focus on the causes, contexts, and…
Afterword: Music, Sound, History
This afterword offers historiographical context for historical writing on music, stretching back to the pioneering work of Eugene Genovese and Lawrence Levine in the 1970s. For the articles in this special issue, it suggests Christopher Small’s concept of “musicking” as a useful way to think about music as social practice and proposes that these articles take on added power when read in relation to the recent scholarship on the history of the sen…
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville, 1889-1926
With The Original Blues Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff have completed an indispensable trilogy of works about the ascendance of African American popular entertainments from the 1890s to the 1920s. As with their two earlier books—Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (2003) and Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (2007)—this richly illustrated volume is based on d…
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age
Journal Article Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age. Get access Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 336. Paper $32.00. David Suisman David Suisman University of Delaware, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
Capitalism and the Senses
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound
This introduction to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 's special issue, "New Approaches to Music and Sound," provides a historical sketch of American music and the American soundscape at the turn of the twentieth century. It also offers a discussion of relevant historiography, taking stock of recent work in sound studies and its influence on research on music and sound of the period. Finally, it introduces the four research artic…
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