Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology

by David L. Morton Jr.

Book Overview

How did one of the great inventions of the nineteenth century--Thomas Edison's phonograph--eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Sound Recording traces the history of the business boom and the cultural revolution that Edison's invention made possible.

Recorded sound has pervaded nearly every facet of modern life--not just popular music,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883989
• ISBN13: 9780801883989
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"