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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951- author.     Subjects     Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951-     Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     High-fidelity sound systems.     Japanese Americans -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951- author.       by title:      The perfect sound : ...         MARC Display

The perfect sound : a memoir in stereo / Garrett Hongo. by Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951- author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2022] Subjects Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951-   Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   High-fidelity sound systems.   Japanese Americans -- Biography. ISBN:  9780375425066 (hardcover) : 0375425063 (hardcover) Description:  526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The Perfect Sound -- I Started Out on Stereo -- Tubeworld, 1 -- Tubeworld, 2 -- It's My Life -- Wandering Rocks, 1 -- The First Amplifiers -- Talking Heads and Singing Platters -- Wandering Rocks, 2 -- Among the Bohemians. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Garrett Hongo's passion for audio dates back to the Empire 98 turntable his father paired with a tube amplifier in their modest tract home in L.A. in the early 60s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps beefy enough to honor the top notes of the great opera sopranos. And in recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its diverse delivery systems. Hongo writes about being a Hawaiian-born, Japanese kid growing up in the shadow of the shameful internment of his ancestors during World War II; about picking up music tips from kids with darker skin than his own; about being a fish out of water with his white peers. Along the way, he nerds out with visits to eccentric collectors of decades-old audio components, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and poetic elders, and turns his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and ukulele, barbershop and the Beatles, Bach, Verdi, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own, now celebrated voice"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 Hongo Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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