“It Has Seldom Been So Difficult to Try to Dress Up a Sound Experience in Words”

Technology and the Rhetoric of Sound and Music Reproduction in Hi-Fi Magazines

Författare

  • Bo Nilsson
  • Kerstin Edin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.v7i.19294

Nyckelord:

Technology, Discourse Theory, Rhetoric, Identification, Articulation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the rhetoric of sound in high fidelity magazines, and how this rhetoric is linked to a technological discourse. Rhetoric of sound refers to the magazines’ efforts to describe sound and music experiences in words. The aim is also to show how an identified technological discourse legitimizes a specific social order. The paper argues that the technological discourse naturalizes the link between technology and masculinity based on notions of gender differences, and that it reproduces a technological worldview in general by offering multiple positions of identification.

Downloads

Publicerad

2022-05-01

Referera så här

Nilsson, B., & Edin, K. (2022). “It Has Seldom Been So Difficult to Try to Dress Up a Sound Experience in Words”: Technology and the Rhetoric of Sound and Music Reproduction in Hi-Fi Magazines. Puls - Musik- Och Dansetnologisk Tidskrift, 7, 121–140. https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.v7i.19294

Nummer

Sektion

Artiklar