My new book, Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures, is now out.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267046
http://www.amazon.com/Spoken-Word-American-Phonograph-Cultures/dp/0520267044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296190230&sr=1-1
About Me
- Jacob Smith
- I've played music in Midwestern rock bands like the Mysteries of Life and the Vulgar Boatmen. Now I teach and write about media and performance at Northwestern University. To read more of my work, see my books, VOCAL TRACKS: PERFORMANCE AND SOUND MEDIA (University of California Press 2008) and SPOKEN WORD: POSTWAR AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CULTURES (University of California Press 2011).
1 comment:
Dear Jacob Smith,
I’m a blogger, journalist and film programmer from Hamburg, Germany. While researching the films "Black Christmas" and "When a Stranger Calls" which I will present next weekend in Hamburg I stumbled upon your book "Vocal Tracks". Since I am especially interested in the uncanny aural aspects of the telephone, I was delighted to see the chapter "Phony Performances" which not only deals with the two films but also places them in a cultural history of phone pranks. Since Google Books does not offer the whole chapter and your book is not avaible in any Hamburg library I wonder if you could mail me the chapter – strictly for research use. If it’s ok for you can contact me under vhummel@foni.net
The Sound of the telephone in movies is beautifully orchestrated in this short by Jess de Gruyter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvVoYp8dME
Take care,
The Wayward Cloud
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