Stage to Studio

Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7742-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Studies in Industry and Society

Award for Best Research in the Field of Record Labels or Manufacturers from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsWinner of the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize from the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Hawaii Region

Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, technology transformed the entertainment industry as much as it did such heavy industries as coal and steel. Among those most directly affected were musicians, who had to adapt to successive inventions and refinements in audio technology—from wax cylinders and gramophones to radio and sound films. In this groundbreaking study, James P. Kraft explores the intersection of sound technology, corporate power, and artistic labor during this disruptive period.

Kraft begins in the late nineteenth century's "golden age" of musicians, when demand for skilled instrumentalists often exceeded supply, analyzing the conflicts in concert halls, nightclubs, recording studios, radio stations, and Hollywood studios as musicians began to compete not only against their local counterparts but also against highly skilled workers in national "entertainment factories." Kraft offers an illuminating case study in the impact of technology on industry and society—and a provocative chapter in the cultural history of America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraft, James P.

Scranton, Philip B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Working Scales in Industrial America
Chapter 2. Boom and Bust in Early Movie Theaters
Chapter 3. Encountering Records and Radio
Chapter 4. Playing in Hollywood Between the Wars
Chapter 5. Rising Militancy
Chapter 6. Recording Ban
Chapter 7. Balancing Success and Failure
Conclusion
Appendix. AFM Membership, 1896–1956
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kraft, James P.
James P. Kraft is a professor of US business, labor, and the American West at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950 and Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985, and Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America.

James P. Kraft is professor of history at the University of Hawai'i at Mânoa. He is also the author of Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985 and Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America, both published by Johns Hopkins.