... industrial history of synthetic substitutes. It also provides a lineage of ideas and instruments that preceded commercially available analog synthesizers, along with examples of the ways inventors, musicians, and listeners have negotiated cultural understandings of synthesis and synthetics in their designs...

... rapping because of the track’s unusually fast tempo. The result heralded the breakthrough of a new form of synthetic funk. Released a month later, “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five carried rap into social realist territory. Steven Hager focused on Bambaataa rather than Flash when...

... synthetic chemistry embedded in current modes of production and consumption. In this chapter a series of ethnographic “stopgaps” set in Chicago, New Delhi, and Venice examines the part that one key technology, the automobile, has played in cultivating this affective stance by bringing people into an...

... synthetic chemistry embedded in current modes of production and consumption. In this chapter a series of ethnographic “stopgaps” set in Chicago, New Delhi, and Venice examines the part that one key technology, the automobile, has played in cultivating this affective stance by bringing people into an...

... electronic mic while the Soulsonic Force fashioned a new, conversational mode of rapping because of the track’s unusually fast tempo. The result heralded the breakthrough of a new form of synthetic funk. Released a month later, “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five carried rap into social...

... resemble the stuff of soap opera. Once the audience has been able to adjust successfully to the film's mixed modes and synthetic approach to character, Citron is able to re• turn to the earlier verite style with stunning effect. The younger sister 216 faces the camera and recounts a chilling...

... attempting to reproduce realistic space and instead providing a clearly artifcial visual feld, Analytic Cubism frees artists from representation and offers boundless opportunities to create independent, synthet- ic wholes constructed of fragments that overlap, abut at hard edges, and coalesce across...

... beginnings of a fashion in- dustry that cannot be adequately understood through an Americanization framework. Clearly the massive U.S. military and cultural presence was crucial. American synthetics like the aforementioned nylon swept into the South following the war, augmenting production efficiency...

... 34 Ibid. 35 Ibid. 36 DES, or diethylstilbestrol, is a synthetic version of estrogen, a common female hormone. Beginning in the mid-to-late 194Os, DES was pre• scribed to pregnant women at high risk for miscarriage and other serious pregnancy complications. DES was later...

... developnlent of nuclear power, the productioll of synthetic fuels, and the mining of coal have all lagged behind projected needs. In the mid-1980s the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was capable of guaranteeing operation in the United States for ninety days. A slowdown in Gulf oil shipments, let alone a...

... developnlent of nuclear power, the productioll of synthetic fuels, and the mining of coal have all lagged behind projected needs. In the mid-1980s the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was capable of guaranteeing operation in the United States for ninety days. A slowdown in Gulf oil shipments, let alone a...

.... American synthetics like the aforementioned nylon swept into the South following the war, augmenting production efficiency and undergird- ing both practical clothing (underwear and work uniforms that were durable and easy to clean) and more extravagant dress (scandalously transparent blouses that...