Technology, Listening and Historical Method
Placing Audio in the Post-War British Home
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11498317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Perchard (0000-0001-7931-0949, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 367-399 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02690403.2017.1361176 |
| OpenAlex | W2593418108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article explores the ways in which audio in the home was figured in (and helped shape) changing consumer and gender roles in post-war Britain. It looks at the ways in which innovations in home-furnishing and audio-equipment design and manufacture created an environment with new tactile as well as sonic qualities; it examines the ways in which changing music styles helped develop new markets for audio equipment and new meanings for audio discourse. But before it does so, the article sets out some arguments on cultural-historical method. Extant academic writing on post-war home audio tends to privilege the study of media representation – and the critique of ideology constructed therein – at the expense of other kinds of enquiry and source-work. In making use of a broader range of sources and interpretative approaches, this piece aims for a thick reading of the ‘social’ along with the ‘cultural’
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Extant taxon · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Communication · Diverse Musicological Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |