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Perfecting sound forever : an aural history of recorded music /

Milner, Greg.

Perfecting sound forever : an aural history of recorded music / Greg Milner. - 1st paperback ed. - New York : Faber and Faber, 2010. - x, 416 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-391) and index.

The point of commencement -- From the new world -- Aluminum cowboys : a pretape parable -- Pink pseudo-realism -- Presence -- Perfect sound? Whatever -- The story of the band that clipped itself to death (and other dispatches from the loudness war) -- Tubby's ghost.

9780865479388 (pbk.)

2010456591


Musical perception.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Psychological aspects.

ML3838 / .M645 2010

781.4909

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