Search Results - "Hi-Fi"

Yodel in hi-fi from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica / by Plantenga, Bart

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Patrice Lumumba / by Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges, 1944-

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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity / by Jaji, Tsitsi

Table of Contents: “…Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- N�egritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post-)pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.…”
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The audio dictionary by White, Glenn D., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The audio dictionary -- The art and science of good acoustics -- Some frequently used symbols and units -- How to subdue a hi-fi salesperson -- Good acoustics in small rooms and auditoria -- Some notes on audio measurements -- The balanced line -- Some notes on digital audio -- Musical scales and the tuning of musical instruments -- Some notes on the history of high fidelity -- Some notes on decimal and binary arithmetic as used in computer terminology -- Some notes on impedance and frequency response.…”
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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object -- Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. …”
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