* The Wire * Tuhus-Dubrow illuminates a web of stories connected to the Walkman, her references as ubiquitous as its users. * Pitchfork (named one of Pitchfork's favorite books of 2017) * careful, astute study. Her thoughtfulness imbues this chronicle of a once-modern, now-obsolete device with a mindfulness that isn't often seen in writing about technology. But as Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow outlines in the delightful Personal Stereo, being able to do so is a relatively recent development. * Music Book Review * In 2017, having music pumped into your ears through headphones while existing in public is a thoroughly normal thing to do. * New Books Network * An honest & deft entry in Object Lessons series. She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe's Ideas section, a columnist for the urban affairs website Next City, and a Journalism and Media Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.A compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, and the Los Angeles Times. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Introduction 1: Novelty 2: Norm 3: Nostalgia Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrowis a Contributing Editor at Dissent. Ranging from postwar Japan to the present, Tuhus-Dubrow tells an illuminating story about our emotional responses to technological change. In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial-the quintessential accessory for the "me" generation. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
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