Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Novelty -- Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute -- Trapping sound -- The Walkman’s fathers -- The case of Andreas Pavel -- Invention or evolution? -- Enter the Walkman -- “The thinking man’s box” -- The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins -- “Outside of reality” -- 2 Norm -- Hear Muffs and baladeurs -- Symbol of the 1980s -- A public health problem -- Death by Walkman -- “Home taping is killing music” -- “First, drug abuse -- now, earphone abuse” -- “There is no such thing as society” -- A nonstop masturbational fantasy -- Fondalepsy and Walkman’s Oblivion -- Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars -- “Remember Pearl Harbor” -- The management of everyday life -- A listening, enjoying unit -- What would Miss Manners say? -- 3 Nostalgia -- Music wants to be free -- The iPod arrives -- Whatever happened to Sony? -- From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs -- “I only listen to cassettes” -- Why the analog nostalgia? -- Revenge of the Walkman -- A force that bends logic -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Index

• Schlagwörter
  Walkman, Geschichte