America on record
Subtitle: a history of recorded sound
By: Andre Millard.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
Subjects: Phonograph; Sound recordings -- United States; Music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes discography (p.   ), bibliographical references (p.   ), and index.
Table of contents: title: The acoustic era. The inventors ; A phonograph in every home ; The international industry of recorded sound ; The music ; Recorded sound in the jazz age; title: The electrical era. The machines ; Competing technologies ; Empires of sound ; Swing and the mass audience ; High fidelity at last ; Rock'n'roll and the revolution in music ; The record ; The studio ; Perfecting studio recording ; The cassette culture; title: The digital era. The media conglomerates ; Into the digital era ; Consolidation and connectivity in the digital era.