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Stereo Is a Lie
Category: Book Design
Year: 2017
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What is preserved is what becomes important. Through the lens of Moses Asch’s Folkways Records, Stereo is a Lie explores the relationship between high and low forms of culture, as well as the role of collecting in determining these delineations. Asch challenged conventional notions of cultural hierarchy, releasing recordings of the plays of Bertolt Brecht alongside mountain songs from Kentucky, an action which demands from the listener a closer reading of both.