This article explores the ways in which audio in the home was figured in (and helped shape) changing consumer and gender roles in post-war Britain. It looks at the ways in which innovations in home-furnishing and audio-equipment design and manufacture created an environment with new tactile as well as sonic qualities; it examines the ways in which changing music styles helped develop new markets for audio equipment and new meanings for audio discourse. But before it does so, the article sets out some arguments on cultural-historical method. Extant academic writing on post-war home audio tends to privilege the study of media representation – and the critique of ideology constructed therein – at the expense of other kinds of enquiry and source-work. In making use of a broader range of sources and interpretative approaches, this piece aims for a thick reading of the ‘social’ along with the ‘cultural’.

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技术、听力和历史方法：在战后英国家庭中放置音频

本文探讨了在战后英国，家庭中的音频如何影响（并帮助塑造）不断变化的消费者和性别角色。它着眼于家居和音响设备设计和制造方面的创新如何创造出具有新触觉和声音品质的环境；它研究了不断变化的音乐风格如何帮助开发音频设备的新市场以及音频话语的新含义。但在此之前，本文提出了一些关于文化历史方法的论点。现存的关于战后家庭音频的学术著作倾向于优先研究媒体表征——以及对其中构建的意识形态的批判——以牺牲其他类型的调查和来源工作为代价。在利用更广泛的资料来源和解释方法时，