A Spiral Way
Subtitle: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781578061747
Subjects: Sociology; Sound recordings in ethnomusicology; Recording & Reproduction; History; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sound recordings in ethnomusic; Sound recordings in ethnology; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Phonocylinders; Phonograph
First sentence: Surprise, astonishment, awe, wonder: first reactions to the phonograph's voice describe a shock almost visceral in its intensity.