Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies

Description: "Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, traces the life and socio-cultural relations of professional audio recording technologies from their material origins through to heritage status"--

Review Quotes: "An impressive and timely collection of fifteen chapters that apply the concept of gear to the study of media technologies."
--H-Net Reviews

"After reading this book, you will also question why you own any of the recording equipment you have. Instead, you'll hope for a future where recordists purchase what they actually need, and that we'll all give up the search for some old metal box The Beatles once ran a signal through."
--TapeOp Magazine