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Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

Miller, Daniel
Borgerson, Janet
Schroeder, Jonathan

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral SociologyMusic Reference

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0262536013
ISBN13: 9780262536011
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 23 2018
Pages: 440
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.

The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo! The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape--or even an ideal space traveler. In Designed for Hi-Fi Living, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture.

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