Steve Waksman
Biographic Data
| ID | 823448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Waksman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Waksman |
| SIGNATURE | WAKSMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5155-7277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
In this article, I explore the question of how loudness or volume appears as a feature of recorded music. To examine loudness means to seek to understand some of the distinct properties of amplified sound and the tools and techniques that have been used to produce – and reproduce – that sound. Also at issue here is a new vantage point to consider the subject of fidelity, one of the principal values that has driven the evolution of sound recording…
The Sage Handbook of Popular Music
This handbook represents a timely and important contribution to popular music studies during a significant period of theoretical and empirical growth and innovation in the field
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount
Journal Article One Night on tv Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television Get access One Night on tv Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. By Murray Forman. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xiv, 405 pp. Cloth, $99.95. Paper, $27.95.) Steve Waksman Steve Waksman Smith CollegeNorthampton, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Hot Stuff
Journal Article Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture Get access Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. By Alice Echols. (New York: Norton, 2010. xxviii, 338 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.) Steve Waksman Steve Waksman Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 97, Issue 4, March 2011, Pages 1183–1184, htt…
Imagining an Interdisciplinary Canon
Les Paul
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland sets itself apart from other book-length studies of women and rock music in two primary ways. First, the book is focused on a rather narrow span of time, the decade from 1965 to 1975, a period that saw dramatic changes in the meaning of rock and in the broader definition of sexual politics in the United States. Second, and more important, the author, Lisa L. Rhodes, is not primarily concerned—as have been the majority of authors…
California Noise
Tinkering has long figured prominently in the history of the electric guitar. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, two guitarists based in the burgeoning Southern California hard rock scene adapted technological tinkering to their musical endeavors. Edward Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen, became the most celebrated rock guitar virtuoso of the 1980s, but was just as noted amongst guitar aficionados for his tinkering with the electric gui…
Reading the Instrument
Pop, Iggy
Hendrix, Jimi
Instruments of Desire
Journal Article Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. By Steve Waksman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 373 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-67400065-X.) Get access David Sanjek David Sanjek BMI Archives, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1578–1579, https://doi.org/10.2307/267488…
Living for the City
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. By Suzanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 319 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). "Well the Motor City is burning/Ain't a thing in the world that I can do. . . . My home town is burning down to the ground/Worster than Vietnam." So sang John Lee Hooker in 1967, only shortly after his home of Detroit had been beset by one of the most damage-inflictin…
Black sound, black body
(1999). Black sound, black body: Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 75-113
Steve Waksman Every Inch of My Love
Hot Stuff
Journal Article Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture Get access Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. By Alice Echols. (New York: Norton, 2010. xxviii, 338 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.) Steve Waksman Steve Waksman Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 97, Issue 4, March 2011, Pages 1183–1184, htt…
California Noise
Tinkering has long figured prominently in the history of the electric guitar. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, two guitarists based in the burgeoning Southern California hard rock scene adapted technological tinkering to their musical endeavors. Edward Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen, became the most celebrated rock guitar virtuoso of the 1980s, but was just as noted amongst guitar aficionados for his tinkering with the electric gui…
Black sound, black body
(1999). Black sound, black body: Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 75-113
Reading the Instrument
Steve Waksman Every Inch of My Love
Black sound, black body
(1999). Black sound, black body: Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 75-113
Pop, Iggy
Hendrix, Jimi
Instruments of Desire
Journal Article Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. By Steve Waksman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 373 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-67400065-X.) Get access David Sanjek David Sanjek BMI Archives, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1578–1579, https://doi.org/10.2307/267488…
Living for the City
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. By Suzanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 319 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). "Well the Motor City is burning/Ain't a thing in the world that I can do. . . . My home town is burning down to the ground/Worster than Vietnam." So sang John Lee Hooker in 1967, only shortly after his home of Detroit had been beset by one of the most damage-inflictin…
Reading the Instrument
California Noise
Tinkering has long figured prominently in the history of the electric guitar. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, two guitarists based in the burgeoning Southern California hard rock scene adapted technological tinkering to their musical endeavors. Edward Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen, became the most celebrated rock guitar virtuoso of the 1980s, but was just as noted amongst guitar aficionados for his tinkering with the electric gui…
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland sets itself apart from other book-length studies of women and rock music in two primary ways. First, the book is focused on a rather narrow span of time, the decade from 1965 to 1975, a period that saw dramatic changes in the meaning of rock and in the broader definition of sexual politics in the United States. Second, and more important, the author, Lisa L. Rhodes, is not primarily concerned—as have been the majority of authors…
Imagining an Interdisciplinary Canon
Les Paul
Hot Stuff
Journal Article Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture Get access Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. By Alice Echols. (New York: Norton, 2010. xxviii, 338 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.) Steve Waksman Steve Waksman Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 97, Issue 4, March 2011, Pages 1183–1184, htt…
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount
Journal Article One Night on tv Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television Get access One Night on tv Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. By Murray Forman. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xiv, 405 pp. Cloth, $99.95. Paper, $27.95.) Steve Waksman Steve Waksman Smith CollegeNorthampton, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Sage Handbook of Popular Music
This handbook represents a timely and important contribution to popular music studies during a significant period of theoretical and empirical growth and innovation in the field
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
In this article, I explore the question of how loudness or volume appears as a feature of recorded music. To examine loudness means to seek to understand some of the distinct properties of amplified sound and the tools and techniques that have been used to produce – and reproduce – that sound. Also at issue here is a new vantage point to consider the subject of fidelity, one of the principal values that has driven the evolution of sound recording…
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