Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819567949)

Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes. Author Peter Doyle traces the development of these acoustically-created worlds from the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus to the dramatic acoustic architectures of the medieval cathedral, the grand concert halls of the 19th century, and those created by the humble parlor phonograph of the early 20th century, and finally, the revolutionary age of rock 'n' roll.

Author: Peter Doyle
ISBN-10: 0819567949
ISBN-13: 9780819567949
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.10w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/04/2006 pg. 23