How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks /
Tompkins, Dave.
How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks / Dave Tompkins. - Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2011. - 348 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the quirky story of how a military device became the voice of hip hop and pop music. Though the vocoder was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it is now widely used as a voice-altering tool by musicians.
9781612190921 (pbk.) : £18.99 1612190928 (pbk.) : £18.99
Vocoder.
Electronic music--History and criticism.
Technology.
621.3'8224
How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks / Dave Tompkins. - Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2011. - 348 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the quirky story of how a military device became the voice of hip hop and pop music. Though the vocoder was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it is now widely used as a voice-altering tool by musicians.
9781612190921 (pbk.) : £18.99 1612190928 (pbk.) : £18.99
Vocoder.
Electronic music--History and criticism.
Technology.
621.3'8224