America on record : a history of recorded sound /

Millard, A. J.

America on record : a history of recorded sound / Andre Millard. - 2nd ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2005. - xiii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliogr.: p. 440-446. Discographie: p. 437-439.

The acoustic era. The inventors ; A phonograph in every home ; The international industry of recorded sound ; The music ; Recorded sound in the Jazz Age -- The electrical era. The machines ; Competing technologies ; Empires of sound ; Swing and the mass audience ; High fidelity at last ; Rock'n'roll and the revolution in music ; The record ; The studio ; Perfecting studio recording ; The cassette culture -- The digital era. The media conglomerates ; Into the digital era ; Consolidation and connectivity in the digital era.

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Electrophones.
Enregistrements sonores--âEtats-Unis.
Musique--Histoire et critique.--Etats-Unis

ML1055 / .M645a 2005

621.389/3/0973