How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks / Dave Tompkins.
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TextPublication details: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2011Description: 348 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 22 cmISBN: 9781612190921 (pbk.) :; 1612190928 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Vocoder | Electronic music -- History and criticism | TechnologyDDC classification: 621.3'8224 Summary: 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.
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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.
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