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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gramophone"”.
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
<p>The gramophone's function in literature has generally been examined in relation to media studies and Walter Benjamin's discussion of the reproduction of art through mechanical means, emphasizing the gramophone’s playback of recorded materials. This particular methodology, however, only deals …
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The Industrial Application of Digital Signal Processing
… detection and assessment of pressing faults on gramophone records for quality assurance purposes. A pattern recognition technique for identifying the signals due to gramophone record defects and a numerical method for assessing the perceived severity of the defects were developed empirically. …
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Now We've Got Our Khaki On: Woman And Music In First World War London
… activities of concerts, folk dancing, and gramophone records; and Lena Ashwell’s Concerts at the Front, whose performers toured across France, Malta, and Egypt. These case studies broaden the scope of scholarship on women’s experiences of the First World War, demonstrating both how popular …
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Early Recorded Violinists
… as the earliest born violinist to have made gramophone recordings, to Mischa Elman. In the first chapter I examine and analyse the recordings of Joachim. In the next chapter I investigate Hugo Heermann's violin playing and technique. Heermann is a violinist with insufficient information …
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Modernity, popular culture and urban life : Anglophone Asians in colonial Singapore, 1920-1940
… of personnel involved and content. Together with gramophone records, the medium of radio developed symbiotically with other urban entertainments at the time. In conclusion, this thesis reveals the depth and textures of an distinctively local experience of modernity in inter-war Singapore. In …
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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
… 1907 New York tour and the American operatic gramophone industry. Chapter Four examines the 1906 Milan Exposition, investigating its musical activities – particularly a revival at La Scala of Verdi’s La traviata (1853) – against contemporary fascination with Argentina. Chapter Five considers …
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Selling the British Empire Exhibition 1924 Through Mass Media and Material Culture
… mass circulation of newspapers, cinema, the gramophone, and wireless radio. Furthermore, changes in education laws, and the introduction of compulsory education, meant that printed material was more in demand than ever before and had a more diverse audience. This thesis will demonstrate the …