![]() ![]() Stephen Lee Naish is a writer and author of several books on the subjects of film and popular culture. ![]() When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people. She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe's Ideas section, a columnist for the urban affairs website Next City, and a Journalism and Media Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is the author of two books, Questionnaire and Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture. ![]() Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Dissent, where she is a contributing editor. ![]() Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a writer-in-residence at the University of California, Irvine. All this is channeled through a personal nostalgic affection for the device. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, author of Personal Stereo: I also wanted to explore the social and cultural aspects of an object. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's book, Personal Stereo ( Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), which is part of the Object Lessons series, offers a compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman, taking into account the device's controversial origin story, the seismic cultural impact on society in the 1980s, the worries of diminishing social interactions, and the philosophical implications of listening to music within one's own private bubble. ![]()
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