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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Phonograph"”.
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A selective automatic phonograph
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1932
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A study of the market for high-fidelity phonograph pick-ups
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, 1939.
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… techniques in response to the advent of the phonograph, tape, and LPs. I contend that the development of sound recording technology not only shaped many of the formal innovations that we now associate with modernism, but that it compelled writers to theorize sound. For instance, Gertrude …
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
… ways in which the traumas represented by phonograph and gramophone are tied to cultural traumas specific to Ireland. Again to briefly quantify, in my work I discuss (to varying degrees) over 20 Irish texts that evoke the gramophone as an object of some significance and in relation to some …
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Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948
… a Dictator, for other media, including radio and phonograph recording. Chapter Five revises previous views of Welles' most ambitious Shakespearean project, the Mercury Text Shakespeare series. Chapter Six offers a new sound-based perspective on Welles' first Shakespeare film, the troubled 1948 …
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Bridging the Gap: Generative Machines and Inventive Minds
Recording technologies, from the phonograph to digital media, have profoundly reshaped the human experience by enabling the capture and reproduction of our sensory world. These technologies allow us to relive experiences through artifacts of remarkable fidelity like photographs and videos, …
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A guide to the archive of the International Horn Society, 1969-1977, at [the] Alexander M. Bracken Library, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
… correspondence, photographs, tape recordings and phonograph records. Source material on many of the world's most eminent hornists is found in this archive.
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"Copies without Originals": Manipulation, Mediation, and Mediatization in Performance and Recording Practices
… first case study covers the early days of the phonograph and its development in Victorian society, then contrasts the values and motivations of those early years with modern-day rock performance and its own value systems. Moving into the mid-twentieth century, a chapter of this thesis is …
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Sound conversations: print media, player pianos, and early radio in the United States
… sound technologies, such as the phonograph, as playing an important role in the march towards more passive, homogenized, and commoditized ways of interacting with music and sound, these ends reveal little of the means. This dissertation focuses on two sound technologies, the …
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
… ears to hear the voice of God on radios and phonograph records, how they regulated and controlled contact between gendered bodies through clothing, and how they honed their bodies to sense spiritual presences. </p><p>Using the methods of visual and material culture studies of religion, I …
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Halls without walls : perpetuation, development & dissemination of the discourse on blues music and blues culture in the digital age (1996-2016)
… occur as performances are remediated as phonograph records and through various broadcast media during the 20th century. Each successive transformation generates discourses of authenticity, ownership and value which enable and constrain definitions of the blues aesthetic. These discourses …
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… technologies, from microphones, loudspeakers, phonograph, tape recorders, and later digital computers. Although live theatre never had the resources to invest in technical research projects, it was very adept at adapting the latest innovations from other fields. I contend that the development …
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… the disembodied voices of new media such as the phonograph and radio as true markers of acoustical modernity, the dissertation emphasizes the proliferation of new modes of embodied listening made possible by the explosion of urban and industrial noise, contemporary media technologies, the threat …
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Playing the Record Lathe: Vinyl Record Cutter as Musical Instrument
… in music composition, revealing the breadth of phonography as an artistic discipline. The lathe can be played to create rhythm, modulate pitch, generate noise and shape timbre, with disc cutting techniques enhancing and exploiting vinyl noise as musical material. Through a body of creative work …
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Exploring Low Brass Recording Techniques
<p>The modern day art and science of music recording evolved through a constant process of trial and error. Although many of these techniques are well-documented and commonplace in modern recording studios, most of them are generalized recording techniques used in the popular and classical music …
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Exploring the Life and Music of Percy Grainger Through Transcription
<p>The purpose of this lecture recital was to demonstrate how Percy Grainger’s life affected his compositional works and arrangements, as well as the stylistic choices made in my transcriptions of his music. This was achieved through a discussion of the different occupations that Percy Grainger had …