Overview

It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices that remain current even today. The work chronicles the people, events and developments that turned a novel, expensive idea into a highly marketable commodity. Two appendices provide extensive lists of popular genre and ethnic recordings made between 1889 and 1919, and a bibliography and index accompany the text.

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Author:   David J. Steffen
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780786420612

ISBN 10:   0786420618
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   24 June 2005
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon      2. Inventing the Music Industry      3. Edison’s Invention      4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision      5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology?      6. “A&R”: Artists and Repertoire      7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox      8. Toward Mass Production      9. Recording and Recordings      10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality      11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market      12. A&R in the Early Years—Styles and Genres      13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs      14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo      15. Most of the Music      16. Immigration and Recordings      17. Culture Swing—The Ethnic Recordings      18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition      19. The Caruso Effect      20. Enter Marconi      Appendix 1. Recordings in Popular Non-Ethnic Genres, 1889–1919      Appendix 2. Ethnic Recordings, 1889–1919      Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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Author Information

David J. Steffen lives in Gualala, California. He has spent nearly three decades in the music industry.

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