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The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo! The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape - or even an ideal space traveler. In Designed for Hi-Fi Living, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture. Borgerson and Schroeder examine the representations of modern life in a selection of midcentury record albums, discussing nearly 150 vintage album covers, reproduced in color - some featuring modern art or the work of famous designers and photographers.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Designed for Hi-Fi Living
• Author: Janet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 440
• EAN: 9780262036238
• ISBN: 9780262036238
• ID: 16056073
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 1170 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 212 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. August 2017

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