Posted: June 18, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. J. Martin Vest In my doctoral dissertation “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930,” I presented a cultural history of the early recording industry in close conversation with the so-called “New Materialisms.” Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), phenomenological philosophy, […]
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Posted: August 8, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by J. Martin Vest I spent early 2017 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts while researching the final chapters of my dissertation, “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930.” Every morning, I rode the train in from Queens, emerging from […]
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Tagged: archives, material culture, Progressive Era, recorded sound, technology
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