Title: Cowboys and indies : the epic history of the record industry /
Authors: Murphy, Gareth.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sound recording industry History
Abstract: From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, Murphy takes readers on an entertaining and encyclopedic ride through the many cataclysmic musical, cultural, and technological changes that shaped a century and a half of the industry.
Contents: Talking machines -- Judgments -- His master's voice -- Exodus -- The invisible wave -- Survivors -- Dead Sea crossing -- Homesick medicine -- Sunrise -- Lucky children -- Numbers -- The invasion -- Acts -- A slow eclipse -- Terra nova -- On black canvas -- Forbidden fruit -- Taurus -- Kings -- Psalms -- The island -- High tide -- Sources -- Sodom & Gomorrah -- Shadows -- Cyclops -- Legends -- Romans -- Lamentations -- Bubblegum forest -- Revelations.