Archive for August, 2009
Backtracking
Posted by labeau on August 23rd, 2009 filed in books
I started on my reading project awhile before this blog & I read quite a few books from 1946 and 1947 that I didn’t write any quick reviews for. At this point I just want to call attention to some of my favorites that weren’t covered.
My favorite U.S. books of 1946
Eugene O’Neill- The Iceman [...]
Les Baxter- Music Out of the Moon
Posted by labeau on August 2nd, 2009 filed in books
33 RPM vinyl LPs hit the market in 1948. They would eventually conceptually revolutionize the making of music, allowing for longer presentations of material (from around 25 to 50 minutes) than 78 or 45 RPM singles or EPs. In the early days of the LP, the format was used maximally by Classical Music [...]
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