Technological innovation and the consolidation of corporate power -- Announcing technological change -- From performing the recorded to dissimulating the machine -- Making sound media meaningful: commerce, culture, politics -- Transcription versus signification: competing paradigms for representing with sound -- Conclusions/reverberations
Summary
Focuses on the innovations in the electronic production and transmission of sound in the 1920s and '30s and their explosive impact on the American mass media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema
