Event overview
Listening, Technology and Historical Method: Placing Audio in the Postwar British Home
British homes were changing dramatically in the 1950s and 60s. New modes of interior design, consumerism and technology helped transform experiences of the everyday – and, in ever-more powerful hi-fi and ever-more popular audio equipment, rendered that experience more sonically rich than before.
This talk explores the ways that audio in the home shaped and was shaped by changing gender roles; it looks at the ways that new materials in the home and audio equipment design – machine-tooled wood, metals, plastics – created an environment newly tactile as well as sonic; it examines the ways that changing music styles, particularly during the Beatles-led record industry boom, helped develop changing markets for audio equipment.
The Music Research Series is designed to help PG advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community, all over a glass of wine! Undergraduates, music researchers, and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Feb 2016 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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