| Description |
x, 245 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"This history examines a newly created technology and industry in search of itself. It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233), discographies, and index. |
| Contents |
The ancients and the jukebox phenomenon -- Inventing the music industry -- Edison's invention -- Cylinders, discs, and vision -- A consumer business or a business technology? -- "A & R" : artists and repertoire -- Speaking of money, and the jukebox -- Toward mass production -- Recording and recordings -- Sound, quality, and topicality -- A popular product and a consumer market -- A & R in the early years : styles and genres -- Of places, performers, and songs -- Type, style, genre, tempo -- Most of the music -- Immigration and recordings -- Culture swing : the ethnic recordings -- Images, music, and the inevitable transition -- The Caruso effect -- Enter Marconi. |
| Subject |
Sound recordings -- History.
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Sound recordings. |
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History. |
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Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History.
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Sound -- Recording and reproducing. |
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Sound recording industry -- History.
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Sound recording industry. |
| ISBN |
0786420618 softcover alkaline paper |
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