Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age

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Notes Preface I thank Richard Boursy for finding the image of figure 4.1, Benny Goodman and Coleman Hawkins in the studio (1934), in Benny Goodman Papers, Gilmore Music Library, Yale University. I also thank Don Peterson for permission to republish the photograph in figure 4.2, Jam Session at the Brunswick Studio, March 14, 1937. 1. Michele Hilmes, “Is There a Field Called Sound Culture Studies? And Does It Matter?” American Quarterly 57, no. 1 (March 2005): 249. 2. Lawrence W. Levine, “Lawrence Levine Analyzes the Blues,” History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/levine.htm, accessed August 2, 2010. 3. Lawrence W. Levine, “William Shakespeare and the American People,” in The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 163, 338n58. 4. A survey of the Quarterly Journal of Speech/Quarterly Journal of Speech Education is illuminating. The word cadence was used in four articles during the 2000s, one book review during the 1990s, three articles and a book review in the 1980s, fifteen essays and book reviews in the 1970s, ten essays and book reviews in the 1960s, twenty-one essays and book reviews in the 1950s, twenty essays and book reviews in the 1940s, twenty-two essays and book reviews in the 1930s, and sixteen essays and book reviews in the 1920s. Chapter 1. Reading Sound 1. Halford R. Ryan, “Roosevelt’s First Inaugural: A Study in Technique,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 65, no. 2 (April 1979): 137–49; Suzanne M. Daughton, “Metaphorical Transcendence: Images of the Holy War in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural ,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 79, no. 4 (November 1993): 427–46; and Davis W. Houch and Mihaela Nocasian, “FDR’s First Inaugural Address: Text, Context, and Reception,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5, no. 4 (2002): 649–78. 2. Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine, The People and the President: America ’s Conversation with FDR (Boston: Beacon, 2002), 16–17. 3. John Erskine, “The Future of Radio as a Cultural Medium,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 177 (January 1935): 214. 4. Quoted in Orrin E. Dunlap Jr., “When 13 Is Lucky,” New York Times, July 23, 1939. 5. Orrin E. Dunlap Jr., “Hoover, Roosevelt, and Radio,” New York Times, July 10, 1932. 6. Levine and Levine, People and the President, 16; Sherman P. Lawton, “Principles of Effective Radio Speaking,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 16, no. 3 (June 1930): 270; F. H. Lumley, “Rates of Speech in Radio Speaking,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 19, no. 3 (June 1933): 403. 7. See Shai Burstyn, “In Quest of the Period Ear,” Early Music 25, no. 4 (November 1997): 693. 8. Alexander G. Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Durham , NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 10. 9. Plato, interpreted by Joshua Gunn, in Gunn, entry dated July 31, 2007, Rosewater Chronicles, http://www.joshiejuice.com/blog/?p=458, accessed July 30, 2010. 10. Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 15–22. 11. Mladen Dolar, The Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), 127. 12. Marshall McLuhan, “Visual and Acoustical Space,” in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, ed. Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner (New York: Continuum, 2004), 69. 13. John M. Picker, Victorian Soundscapes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 125. 14. William Howland Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph in Popular Memory, 1890–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), xiii. 15. Michelle Hilmes, Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922–1952 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), xiv. 16. Susan J. Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (New York: Times Books, 1999), 7. 17. Penelope Gouk, “In Search of Sound: Authenticity, Healing, and Redemption in the Early Modern State,” Senses & Society 2, no. 3 (2007): 306. 18. Richard Leppert, “Desire, Power, and the Sonoric Landscape: Early Modernism and the Politics of Musical Privacy,” in The Place of Music, ed. Andrew Leyshan, David Matless, and George Revill (New York: Guilford, 1998), 292. 156 . notes to chapter 1 19. Lawrence W. Levine, “The Historian and the Culture Gap,” in The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 14–31. 20. Michael P. Steinberg, Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and NineteenthCentury Music (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 1. 21. Robert Wess, Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism (New York: Cambridge...