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035			_a(OCoLC)1420865395
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050		4	_aML1092 _b.J33 2024
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100	1		_aJackson, Myles W., _eauthor. _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyrWWqwy44YqhFk3Jg9Xd. _9216
245	1	0	_aBroadcasting fidelity : _bGerman radio and the rise of early electronic music / _cMyles W. Jackson.
246	3	0	_aGerman radio and the rise of early electronic music
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2024]
300			_axiii, 339 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a1. Weimar radio: The great experiment -- 2. High infidelity -- 3. Analyzing distortions and creating fidelity -- 4. The RVS radio experiments -- 5. The original Trautonium -- 6. The Nazis and the Trautonium -- 7. The Trautonium after the War -- 8. Sala & Trautwein vs. the Cologne Studio for Electronic Music -- 9. Epilogue.
520			_aA landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelity. When we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it's a cello, a guitar, or an operatic voice. Such fidelity was not always true of radio. Broadcasting Fidelity shows how the problem of broadcast fidelity pushed German scientists beyond the traditional bounds of their disciplines and led to the creation of one of the most important electronic instruments of the twentieth century.In the early days of radio, acoustical distortions made it hard for even the most discerning musical ears to differentiate instruments and voices. The physicists and engineers of interwar Germany, with the assistance of leading composers and musicians, tackled this daunting technical challenge. Research led to the invention in 1930 of the trautonium, an early electronic instrument capable of imitating the timbres of numerous acoustical instruments and generating novel sounds for many musical genres. Myles Jackson charts the broader political and artistic trajectories of this instrument, tracing how it was embraced by the Nazis and subsequently used to subvert Nazi aesthetics after the war and describing how Alfred Hitchcock commissioned a later version of the trautonium to provide the sounds of birds squawking and flapping their wings in his 1963 thriller The Birds.A splendid work of scholarship by an acclaimed historian of science, Broadcasting Fidelity reveals how the interplay of science, technology, politics, and culture gave rise to new aesthetic concepts, innovative musical genres, and the modern discipline of electroacoustics.
590			_a"I was funded by a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin [...]. [...]. I am also indebted to those who posed numerous questions and commented on various lectures that I gave that formed the early versions of this book. They include audiences at the American Academy in Berlin [...]."-- pp.XI-XII
650		0	_aTrautonium _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTrautonium _xPolitical aspects _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aRadio broadcasting _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aRadio _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aElectronic musical instruments _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		6	_aTrautonium _zAllemagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		6	_aTrautonium _xAspect politique _zAllemagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		6	_aRadio _zAllemagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		6	_aInstruments de musique électroniques _zAllemagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
653			_aFellow
653			_aBosch Fellow in Public Policy
653			_aClass of Fall 2014
653			_aDistinguished Visitor
653			_aMarcus Bierich Distinguished Visitor
653			_aClass of Spring 2023
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982			_bFY21 _cGen _n2021 _q32101112766983
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