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Lonely Sounds: Recorded Popular Music And American Society, 1949-1979, Chris R. Rasmussen
Lonely Sounds: Recorded Popular Music And American Society, 1949-1979, Chris R. Rasmussen
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Abstract: Lonely Sounds: Popular Recorded Music and American Society, 1949-1979 Lonely Sounds: Popular Recorded Music and American Society, 1949-1979 examines the relationship between the experience of listening to popular music and social disengagement. It finds that technological innovations, the growth of a youth culture, and market forces in the post-World War II era came together to transform the normal musical experience from a social event grounded in live performance into a consumable recorded commodity that satisfied individual desires. The musical turn inward began in the late 1940s. Prior to the postwar era, the popular music experience was communal, rooted in …