Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

by William Howland Kenney

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195100468

ISBN13:9780195100464

Release Date:July 1999

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:2.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

20th Century Arts, Music & Photography Electrical & Electronics Engineering History History & Criticism Music Musical Genres Politics & Social Sciences Recording & Sound

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