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Inventing the Recording - The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914 (Hardcover)
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Inventing the Recording - The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded
sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and
cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique
national context, author Eva Moreda Rodriguez tells the stories of
institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development
of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns
and debates, all while paying close attention to original
recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain
of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877,
followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882)
by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated
the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who
spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and
its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly
developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the
'traveling phonographs' and salones fonograficos of the 1890s and
early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and
exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes
and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally,
the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry
dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonograficos, small businesses
that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and
shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record
as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.
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