America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound

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Cambridge University Press, 2005 M12 5 - 457 páginas
With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the beautiful music that was the preserve of the wealthy became a mass-produced consumer good, cheap enough to be available to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in every home. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound provides a history of sound recording from the first thin sheet of tinfoil that was manipulated into retaining sound to the home recordings of rappers in the 1980s and the high-tech studios of the 1990s. This book examines the important technical developments of acoustic, electric, and digital sound reproduction while outlining the cultural impact of recorded music and movies. This second edition brings the story up to date, describing the digital revolution of sound recording with the rise of computers, Napster, DVD, MP3, and iPod.
 

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Introduction
1
The acoustic
15
The inventors 17 73688
17
A phonograph in every home
43
The international industry of recorded sound
65
The music
80
Recorded sound in the Jazz Age
96
The electrical
113
The record
244
The studio
258
Perfecting studio recording
285
The cassette culture
313
The digital
329
The media conglomerates
331
Into the digital era
346
Consolidation and connectivity in the digital era
367

The machines
115
Competing technologies
136
Empires of sound
158
Swing and the mass audience
176
High fidelity at last
189
Rocknroll and the revolution in music
223
Abbreviations used in the notes
409
Notes
410
Select discography
437
Recordings index
455
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Andre Millard is Director of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Edison and the Business of Innovation and a contributor to National Public Radio's 'Lost and Found Sound'.

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