Off the Record
Subtitle: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780813527468
Subjects: Sound Recording And Recordings; United States; Social aspects; Economic Aspects Of Music; Music; Technology & Industrial Arts; Recording and reproducing; Sound recording industry; Sound; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Cultural studies; Electronics & Communications Engineering; Impact of science & technology on society; Music recording & reproduction; USA; Recording & Reproduction; Case studies
First sentence: John Philip Sousa, in his 1906 essay on the "menace of mechanical music," predicted a dire outcome for American culture, a deterioration of talent and taste caused by the diffusion of music on records.