From Edison to Marconi : the first thirty years of recorded music /
"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...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of 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.