Noise Uprising

Informationen zum Autor Michael Denning teaches American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of "Mechanic Accents!" "Cover Stories!" "Culture in the Age of Three Worlds!" and "The Cultural Front." "From the Trade Paperback edition." Klappentext In a handful of years between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s! the soundscape of modern music unfolded in a series of relatively unnoticed recording sessions around the world. These included the recording of tango in Buenos Aires! son in Havana! and samba in Rio; of hula in Honolulu! shidaiqu in Shanghai! and kroncong in Jakarta; and of taraab in East Africa and marabi in Johannesburg. In this ground breaking study! Michael Denning draws a global map of a musical revolution that had more profound consequences than the "modern" musics of the European avant-garde.

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In a handful of years between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern music unfolded in a series of relatively unnoticed recording sessions around the world. These included the recording of tango in Buenos Aires, son in Havana, and samba in Rio; of hula in Honolulu, shidaiqu in Shanghai, and kroncong in Jakarta, and; of taraab in East Africa and marabi in Johannesburg. In this ground-breaking study, Michael Denning draws a global map of a musical revolution that had more profound consequences than the "modern" musics of the European avant-garde. "From the Trade Paperback edition."