Off the Record
Subtitle: The Technology & Culture of Sound Recording in America
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780613918428
Subjects: History; Recording & Reproduction; Social Aspects; Music; Music/Songbooks
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.