Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960

by Peter Doyle

The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music.

Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (2006)

Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567949
• ISBN13: 9780819567949
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up