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Author Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca, author.

Title Personal stereo / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Object lessons
Object lessons.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Novelty : Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute ; Trapping sound ; The Walkman's fathers ; The case of Andreas Pavel ; Invention or evolution? ; Enter the Walkman ; "The thinking man's box" ; The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins : "Outside of reality" -- Norm : Hear muffs and baladeurs ; Symbol of the 1980s ; A public health problem ; Death by Walkman ; "Home taping is killing music" ; "First, drug abuse; now, earphone abuse" ; "There is no such thing as society" ; A nonstop masturbational fantasy ; Fondalepsy and Walkman's oblivion ; Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars ; "Remember Pearl Harbor" ; The management of everyday life ; A listening, enjoying unit ; What would Miss Manners say? -- Nostalgia : Music wants to be free ; The iPod arrives ; Whatever happened to Sony? ; From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs ; "I only listen to cassettes" ; Why the analog nostalgia? ; Revenge of the Walkman ; A force that bends logic.
Summary "When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial-the quintessential accessory for the "me" generation. In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. Ranging from postwar Japan to the present, Tuhus-Dubrow tells an illuminating story about our emotional responses to technological change."-- Publisher's description.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2018).
Subject Walkman (Portable media player)
Portable media players -- Social aspects.
Music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Literary theory.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Material culture.
Cultural studies.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Music -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030444
Walkman (Portable media player) (OCoLC)fst01983557
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca. Personal stereo. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017 9781501322815 (DLC) 2017001436 (OCoLC)952789753
ISBN 9781501322839 (electronic book)
1501322834 (electronic book)
9781501322822 (electronic book)
1501322826 (electronic book)
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