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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Janet Borgerson; Jonathan E Schroeder; Daniel Miller |
ISBN: | 9780262036238 0262036231 9780262536011 0262536013 |
OCLC Number: | 958205262 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of |
Description: | xv, 420 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Part I: Home -- Being at Home -- Modern Art and Design -- Music for Gracious Living -- Let's Have a Dinner Party! -- Music for Hi-Fi Living -- Part II: Away -- Airlines -- Honeymoon -- New York City -- Cuba -- Hawaii -- Sound Tour -- Adventures in Sound -- Capitol of the World -- Space. |
Responsibility: | Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder ; foreword by Daniel Miller. |
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Before album covers were reduced to tiny icons on smartphones, they were bold, colorful pieces of art, as much cultural indicators as protectors for the records inside.-Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Wolfe An excellent example of consumer research subtly linked to political ideologies and shifting consumer attitudes and tastes.-TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION One of the smartest books we've ever seen on album cover art - a lavish full color volume that not only presents loads of classic images, but also has plenty to say about them as well!-Dusty Groove, Chicago Fascinating.-Print Magazine Terrific. Makes a great gift for the music lover who loves midcentury design and travel.-KCRW Rhythm Planet Borgerson and Schroeder contend that midcentury record albums offered compelling visions for incorporating style, home, and travel into mainstream American society. Their book, Designed for Hi-Fi Living, offers a view of this vision, a way to illustrate the role of the vinyl LP in developing contemporary American consumer culture.-Leonardo An eye-opening, colorful, often humorous look back at a time when the vinyl LP was not only becoming a commonplace item in the American home, but also reflected the times we lived in, and our hope for the future.-PopMatters Delve[s] beneath the kitschy album art to explore how this genre of mood music reflected an era of shifting desires.-Hyperallergic Read more...


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