How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins

How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

Dave Tompkins

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history music technology challenging informative slow-paced
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The 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-...

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