Designed for Success - Better Living and Self Improvement with Midcentury Instructional

A charmingly illustrated history of midcentury instructional records and their untold contribution to the American narrative of self-improvement, aspiration, and success. For the midcentury Americans who wished to better their golf game through hypnosis, teach their parakeet to talk, or achieve sexual harmony in their marriage, the answers lay no further than the record player. In Relegated to obscurity and novelty, instructional records such as

Product details

• Authors: Janet Borgerson, Borgerson Janet, Jonathan Schroeder, Schroeder Jonathan
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2024
• EAN: 9780262048835
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04883-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 260 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, DESIGN / History & Criticism, Industrial / commercial art & design, history of design