Andre Millard

America on Record

A History of Recorded Sound

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of sound recording from the nineteenth to the twenty first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9780521542814
• ISBN-10: 0521542812
• Artikelnr.: 21826640

Autorenporträt

Andre Millard is Director of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Edison and the Business of Innovation and a contributor to National Public Radio's 'Lost and Found Sound'.

Inhaltsangabe

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: 6. 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.