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From Edison to Marconi - The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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From Edison to Marconi - The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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As with any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of
sound recording ushered in a period of explosive and imaginative
experimentation, growth and competition. Between the commercial
debut of Edison's ""talking machine"" in 1889 and the first
commercial radio broadcast three decades later, the recording
industry was uncharted territory both in terms of technology and
content. Wire, cylinder and disks competed to become the dominant
recording technology, and for early industry pioneers, the primary
concern wasn't what they recorded, but that they had a recording to
sell. The industry headed in myriad directions - led by luminaries
like Edison and Marconi, plus a host of long-forgotten others -
until affordable phonographs and commerical radio gave it
direction, creating public demand for certain recordings. By the
time the dust settled, companies, practices and genres that even
now profoundly affect the recording industry were firmly
entrenched. This history of the earliest years of sound recording -
the time between the phonograph's appearance and the licensing of
commercial radio - examines a newly created technology and industry
in search of itself. 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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