Playback
Subtitle: from the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of music, machines, and money
By: Mark Coleman.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Sound recording industry -- History; Music and technology
Description: "Playback is the first book to place the history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context - and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning. In a narrative that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with ditial music, the ubiquitous iPod, and the file-sharing wars, this is a history we have all experienced in one way or another. From the Victrola, the 78, the 45, and the 33-1/3 to the 8-track, cassette, compact disc, and MP3, the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business, in the 20th century and beyond."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Magic in a tin can; title: War on canned music; title: Low road to high fidelity; title: Ponytail ribbons, popsicles and peanut brittle; title: Dreaming in stereo; title: Last dance; title: Adventures on the wheels of steel; title: Sudden death of the record; title: Canned music's last stand.