Toy Instruments: Design, Nostalgia, Music - Couverture rigide

Schneider, Eric

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0982075480 ISBN 13 : 9780982075487

Editeur : Mark Batty Publisher, 2010

Synopsis

Toy Instruments Toy Instruments comprises an eye-popping collection of musical toys made between the 1950s and today. In theory, all of these toys are meant to excite children about learning how to play an instrument. What becomes clear, however, though the photographs and text, however, is that these products could be as much fun for adults as children, especially for adults with their own musical interests. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Toy Instruments compises an eye-popping collection of musical toys made between the 1950s and 1990s. Created to excite children about learning how to play an instrument, the toys turned out to be very fun for adults as well. Just ask David Bowie; he used the Stylophone in his song "Space Oddity."

Culled from author Eric Schneider's personal collection, Toy Instruments explores this niche of the toy industry, doing so with an informative and humorous approach that demonstrates how even in today's world of Guitar Hero and Wii, these musical toys are emblematic, and enigmatic, artifacts from bygone eras. As DJ Spooky writes in his introduction, "I think of the material that Eric Schneider has compiled as a kind of 'object' time machine, reaching back to the heart of what electronic music represented when it was new."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mark Batty Publisher
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0982075480
• ISBN 13: 9780982075487
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible