Recorded Music In American Life - The Phonograph And Popular Memory, 1890-1945

English | 1999 | 279 Pages | PDF | 3,65 MB
This title examines the interplay between recorded music and social, political, and economic forces in the US in the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, from the appearance of first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry yielded its primacy to newer forms of mass media.