Rеcordеd Music in Amеricаn Lifе: Thе Phonogrаph аnd Populаr Mеmory, 1890-1945
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-27
List price: $45.00
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what’s already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the p...