{"product_id":"how-to-wreck-a-nice-beach-the-vocoder-from-world-war-ii-to-hip-hop-the-machine-speaks-1933633883","title":"How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1933633883\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tompkins, Dave\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weaponThe vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music.In How to Wreck a Nice Beach-from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase how to recognize speech-music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalins gulags, from the 1939 Worlds Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune.We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, We must go off! And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human.From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of musics most provocative innovators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51887385739552,"sku":"NEW1933633883","price":299.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71KBmulAYyL.jpg?v=1781900700","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/how-to-wreck-a-nice-beach-the-vocoder-from-world-war-ii-to-hip-hop-the-machine-speaks-1933633883","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}