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Author Tompkins, Dave.

Title How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks / Dave Tompkins.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Melville House ; Chicago : Stop Smiling, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  621.382 TO    Missing
Description 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314), art bibliography (pages316-320), and index.
Contents Axis of eavesdroppers -- Nearly enough like that which game them birth -- Indestructible speech -- Vocoder Kommissar -- As it is, on Mars -- Color out of space -- The sacred thunder croak -- Interdiction -- Vietnam, verbot and clear -- Think he said her name was Voodoo-on-a-stick -- Cool, as long as nobody hears it -- Eat a planet and go on to the next one -- Decompression -- Epilogue: I was like -- Appendix. Future Beat Alliance ; Auto-tune : it's not the end of the world ; How to recognize a Peachtree freak : 80 songs with vocoder.
Subject Electronic music -- History and criticism.
Vocoder.
ISBN 9781933633886 hardcover
1933633883 hardcover
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