Echo and reverb : fabricating space in popular music recording, 1900-1960 /
Peter Doyle.
- Middletown, Conn. : London : Wesleyan University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], c2005.
- [vii], 293 p. ; 23 cm.
- Music/culture .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274). Discography: (p. 275-277).
A story of acoustic effects in popular music, this book is the history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. It documents how acoustic effects have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes.