Fidelity Matters
Lars Nyres doctoral dissertation Fidelity Matters. Sound Media and Realism in the 20th Century is a history of cultural perception in sound. It is oriented towards the two media radio and musical recording.
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Lars Nyre - ISBN 82-7661-172-9 - Høgskulen i Volda, 2003.
Lars Nyres doctoral dissertation Fidelity Matters. Sound Media and Realism in the 20th Century is a history of cultural perception in sound. It is oriented towards the two media radio and musical recording, and it interprets a range of innovations in handicraft and domestic listening strategies thorough the 20th century. The Anglo-American cultural field is the focus of investigations.
Perception is a question of meaningfulness for the individual, and this entails that descriptions of the bodily engagement with an apparatus are crucial to the dissertation. Furthermore, engagements with radio and musical recording are strikingly auditory, and the dissertation investigates the development of a unique technologically based auditory rhetoric. Among the historical cases discussed are early 20th century operatic recordings, sociability radio of the 1930s, the luxurious mono sound of 1950s LPs, edited reportage in post-war radio, 1960s multitrack studio practices, the lunar transmission in 1969, digital production of techno and pop from the 1980s, and present time phone-in programming.
The theoretical basis for these historical interpretations is a heuristic blend of phenomenology, philosophy of technology, rhetoric and medium theory. Important theorists are Rudolf Arnheim, Kenneth Burke, John Ellis, Erving Goffman, Don Ihde, Anders Johansen, Marshall McLuhan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paddy Scannell and Alfred Schutz.
Lars Nyre er førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for informasjons- og medievitskap, Universitetet i Bergen,
