Personal Stereo is a joy to read." - Los Angeles Review of Books " Personal Stereo is loving, wise, and exuberant, a moving meditation on nostalgia and obsolescence. Tuhus-Dubrow an elegant, engaging storyteller who unpacks complex social and political concepts with clarity and panache. It would appear that she has left no Walkman-related stone unturned.
Tuhus-Dubrow is a master researcher and synthesizer. After finishing Personal Stereo, I found myself wondering about the secret lives of every object around me, as if each device were whispering, "Oh, I am much so more than meets the eye". Her thoughtfulness imbues this chronicle of a once-modern, now-obsolete device with a mindfulness that isn't often seen in writing about technology." - Pitchfork (named one of Pitchfork's favorite books of 2017) "Tuhus-Dubrow illuminates a web of stories connected to the Walkman, her references as ubiquitous as its users. But as Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow outlines in the delightful Personal Stereo, being able to do so is a relatively recent development.
Now I understand why I still own the taxicab-yellow Walkman my grandmother gave me in 1988., "A compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman." - New Books Network "An honest & deft entry in Object Lessons series." - Music Book Review "In 2017, having music pumped into your ears through headphones while existing in public is a thoroughly normal thing to do. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow writes as beautifully about Georg Simmel and Allan Bloom as she does about Jane Fonda and Metallica. Personal Stereo is loving, wise, and exuberant, a moving meditation on nostalgia and obsolescence.
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