 | Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording Subjects: Sound recording industry -- United States -- History; Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- United States; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; In Making Easy Listening, Tim J. Anderson analyzes the period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s that saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Anderson presents a social and cultural history of musical production that aims to understand how recording technologies influence musicians', as well as listeners', lives. |
