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Hardback
Publication date:
05 December 2005
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ISBN:
0521835151
ISBN 13:
9780521835152
This product is the new edition of:
America on Record (1995)
America on Record
by
A.J. Millard
A history of sound recording from the nineteenth to the twenty first century.
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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 updates the story, describing the digital revolution of sound recording with the rise of computers, Napster, DVD, MP3, and iPod.
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Publisher & Imprint:
Cambridge University Press
Edition details
2nd Revised edition
City:
Cambridge
Edition:
REV
Pages:
474
More info:
height 228 mm
width 152 mm
weight 860 gr
thickness 30 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 780.2660973
Library of Congress Subject: ML1055 .M47 2005 Phonograph
Departments:
Music recording & reproduction;
Record updated at:
19 June, 2013
time:
13:38
Summary
America on Record
Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Acoustic Era: 1. The inventors; 2. A phonograph in every home; 3. The international industry of recorded sound; 4. The music; 5. Recorded sound in the Jazz Age; Part II. The Electrical Era: 5. The machines; 7. Competing technologies; 8. Empires of sound; 9. Swing and the mass audience; 10. High fidelity at last; 11. Rock'n'roll and the revolution in music; 12. The record; 13. The studio; 14. Perfecting studio recording; 15. The cassette culture; Part III. The Digital Era: 16. The media conglomerates; 17. Into the digital era; 18. Consolidation and connectivity in the digital era.
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