Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

by William Howland Kenney

Book Overview

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195100468
• ISBN13: 9780195100464
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"