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.