Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc

by Gavin Williams

Book Overview

The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format.

With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with the shellac disc, beginning with its preconditions in South Asian knowledge and labor, to offer a global portrait of this format...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226833267
• ISBN13: 9780226833262
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"