Cars with the Boom
Identity and Territory in American Postwar Automobile Sound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4984497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Z Morris, David Morris (0000-0002-1754-8932, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 326-353 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2014.0059 |
| OpenAlex | W2054749621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article traces the technological and cultural transformation of car audio from its World War II-era status as an aid to middle-class information efficiency through a process of fragmentation, including the development of "boom cars." These ultraloud sound systems, enabled by wartime innovations and postwar abundance, increasingly became indexes of opposition for those at the ethnic and economic margins of American life. Boom cars turned the perfected technology of hi-fi car audio outward into the streets, using sound to aggressively contest space and assert identity. These technological practices have been met with resistance from governments, continuing the centuries-long struggle for social power on the proxy battlefield of sound, and offering a template for understanding the possibilities and challenges of technological multiculturalism
Acoustics · Ancient history · Battlefield · Boom · CONTEST · Economics · Economy · Media studies · Middle class · Multiculturalism · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sound (geography) · Diverse Musicological Studies · Engineering · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
Radio voices
Risk Society
Noise
Yo' mama's disfunktional!
Generations of youth
The Auditory Culture Reader
The Cultural Studies Reader
A Voice and Nothing More
Music in Everyday Life
Mobility without Mayhem
Drive Slow: Rehearing Hip Hop Automotivity
White Collar
Was Postwar Suburbanization “White Flight”? Evidence from the Black Migration
"God's Gift to Us Girls"
Car Stereos and the Criminal Sanction
Selling Radio
Auto Opium
Listening In
America and the Automobile
Percussion
A thousand plateaus
The Prison Industrial Complex
Music and the Rise of Radio in 1920s America
The Lonely Crowd
Turn it down!' she shrieked
Pump up the Bass-Rhythm, Cars, and Auditory Scaffolding
High Performance
Automobile and Culture
Getting There
Black Noise
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |