Sound Media

Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the 20th century.

Lars Nyre is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen and Volda University College, Norway. He is chair of the research network Digital Radio Cultures in Europe (www.drace.org) and has published articles about mass media in research journals including Journalism Studies and the Journal of Radio and Audio Media

Acknowledgements Soundtrack Figures 1. Theoretical Introduction to Sound Media Part I: The Present Time 2. The Acoustic Computer. Nervous experiments with Sound Media 3. Synthetic Music. Digital Recording in Great Detail 4. The Mobile Public. Journalism for Urban Navigators 5. Phone Radio. Personality Journalism in Voice Alone 6. Loudspeaker Living. Pop Music is Everywhere Part II: Backwards History 7. Tape Control. A Revolution in Music Recording 1970s - 1950s 8. The Acoustic Nation. Live Journalism 1960s - 1930s 9. Microphone Moods. Music Recording 1940s - 1930s 10. The Live Public. Experiments in Broadcasting 1920s - 1900s 11. The Repeating Machine. Music Recording 1920s - 1870s. Literature. Soundtrack Supplement. Index