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Reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order.

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"In what will surely be a controversial revision, Fred Turner maps the attempts of social scientists, industrial designers, European expats and others to mold democratic personalities as a bulwark against authoritarianism, forming a civil foundation upon which arose spatial media experiments of the arts and counterculture of the 1960s. From an Americana more associated with Aaron Copeland comes the radical surround sound of John Cage; from image management of psyches, psychedelic media environments." -Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts"

The Democratic Surround

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 12 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780226817460
      978-0226817460
      ISBN-10 0226817466
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      Centrist democratic ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order.

      Trade Review
      "In what will surely be a controversial revision, Fred Turner maps the attempts of social scientists, industrial designers, European expats and others to mold democratic personalities as a bulwark against authoritarianism, forming a civil foundation upon which arose spatial media experiments of the arts and counterculture of the 1960s. From an Americana more associated with Aaron Copeland comes the radical surround sound of John Cage; from image management of psyches, psychedelic media environments." -Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts"

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