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Authors: Janet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder Title: Designed For Hi-Fi Living Subtitle: The Vinyl LP In Midcentury America Publisher:   The MIT Press Country: USA Date: 2018 Format: Paperback Class Number: 306.4842097309045 Genre: Music, Art & Design, Reference ISBN-13: 9780262036238 Barcode: 978026253601190 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay

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The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo! The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape - or even an ideal space traveler. In DESIGNED FOR HI-FI LIVING, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture.

foreward by Daniel Miller
14 chapters divided into HOME and AWAY categories
pages number to 420
full colour LP images on one page with text and credits on the opposite page
8"x8" square and close to 1 inch thick

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