Something's in the Woods
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Something's in the Woods by Richard Brightfield
Suddenly, popular music resembles an alien landscape. The great common ground of 45s, LPs, and even compact discs is rapidly falling by the wayside to be replaced by binary bits of sound. In the 21st century, radical advances in music technology threaten to overshadow the music itself. Indeed, today the generations divide over how they listen to the music, not what kinds of music they enjoy.Playback is the first book to place the staggering history of sound reproduction within its larger social and cultural context. Concisely told via a narrative arc that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with digital music, this is a history that we have all directly experienced in one way or another. From the Victrola to the 78 to the 45 to the 33 1/3 to the 8track to the cassette to the compact disc to MP3 and beyond (not to mention everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning), the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business, in the 20th century.
Richard Brightfield's maze books were an offshoot of his lifelong doodling mania that began as a preschooler and followed him through his years at Johns Hopkins (class of '49) and into adulthood. In addition to working many years as a graphic designer at Columbia University, he wrote and/or illustrated over a hundred books, many with his late wife, Glory. Rick's parallel life was spent as an amateur archaeologist, and he has traveled all over the world. Now 83 years young, he lives in Florida with his five cats and a dog, where he paints and writes every day when not bicycling, playing tennis or jumping in the surf.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780836817249 |
| ISBN 10 | 0836817249 |
| Title | Something's in the Woods |
| Author | Richard Brightfield |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing |
| Year published | 1997-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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