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ARTIST
TRUNK, JONNY
TITLE
Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s-1980s
FORMAT
Book
LABEL
FUEL PUBLISHING
CATALOG #
9781739887810
9781739887810
GENRE
Misc
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2024
"An archive of aural sensations past, teeming with rare and previously unpublished vintage hi-fi brochures. Remember roller-skating while wearing your first Walkman? Or relaxing to easy listening in your pure white Philips lounge? Or playing chess on your JVC tabletop radio? All these scenarios can be found in the geeky and rarefied world of the vintage hi-fi brochure, where graphic design and acoustic apparatus make magical music together. From austere postwar Britain to poppy pre-millennium Japan,
Audio Erotica
presents a nostalgic nirvana of the strangest and most significant period hi-fi brochures. The volume acts as a companion title to the delightful
Jonny Trunk
/FUEL publication,
Auto Erotica: A Grand Tour through Classic Car Brochures of the 1960s to 1980s
and is manufactured in the same format. Alphabetically listed, from
Aiwa
to
Zenith
, with
Braun
,
JVC Nivico
,
Nakamichi
,
Sony
and everything in between, this book will resonate with any music fan. Setting the tempo are the pipe-smoking, high-end separates (amplifiers, speakers, turntables) of the 1950s, followed by the swinging Dansette record players of the 1960s, the prog-brushed-metal music centers of the 1970s and the sleek capitalist cabinet stack systems of the 1980s -- not forgetting the aerobic stereo sound portability facilitated by the boombox, and that final high-fidelity, hardware hurrah: the compact disc. The evocative brochures in
Audio Erotica
track the technological development of audio equipment before the digital download, while simultaneously revealing the way hi-fi was marketed to the listening public. With knobs on. A striking screen-printed graphic cover on 'brushed aluminum' paper echoes the hi-fi systems shown in the brochures."
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