How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
by:
Dave Tompkins (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781933633886 (1933633883)
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: Stop Smiling Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Explores a weird place where military encryption, cellphones, Eurotrash and hip-hop converge. Unfortunately, the author is no techie, surely a requirement to write anything like a definitive history of a very technical piece of gear. He also spends far more time on some marginal figures in urban cul...