Designed for Success
Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records
$64.79
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2024
Summary
A charmingly illustrated history of midcentury instructional records and their untold contribution to the American narrative of self-improvement, aspiration, and success.
For the midcentury Americans who wished to better their golf game through hypnosis, teach their parakeet to talk, or achieve sexual harmony in their marriage, the answers lay no further than the record player. In Designed for Success, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder shed light on these endearingly ear…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262048835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262048833 |
| Author: | Janet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 203mm |
About The Author
Janet Borgerson
Janet Borgerson is Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University. Jonathan Schroeder is William A. Kern Professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. Borgerson and Schroeder are coauthors of Designed for Hi-Fi Living- The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America and Designed for Dancing- How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance (both MIT Press).
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