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Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi brochures 1950s-1980s

English

By (author): Jonny Trunk

Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic nostalgia tracks the technological progress of our listening pleasure.

Remember roller-skating 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 post-war Britain to poppy pre-millennium Japan, Audio Erotica presents a nostalgic nirvana of the strangest and most significant period hi-fi brochures. 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 centres of the 1970s, and the sleek capitalist cabinet stack systems of the 1980s not forgetting the aerobic stereo sound portability facilitated by the boom-box, and that final high-fidelity, hardware hurrah: the compact disc. All accompanied by questionable fashion decisions and acres of shag-pile carpet.

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 800g
  • Dimensions: 180 x 220mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: FUEL Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781739887810

About Jonny Trunk

Nostalgia enthusiast Jonny Trunk founded his record label Trunk Records in 1995 which specialises in releasing lost and archived recordings. He compiled and wrote The Music Library a book that documented the hidden world of library music and Own Label a book about Sainsburys packaging from 1962-1977. He has worked with Oliver Postgate Derek Griffiths Tony Hart and other celebrated artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Jonny also writes for a number of magazines and broadcasts his own weekly Patreon show. Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell FUEL have been publishing books since 2004. They have worked with Jonny Trunk for almost 20 years on a number of publications including The Music Library Own Label Wrappers Delight and A-Z Record Shop Bags.

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