Off the Record
Subtitle: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780813527475
Subjects: Cultural studies; Electronics & Communications Engineering; Impact of science & technology on society; Music recording & reproduction; Social Aspects; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Sound; History; Recording & Reproduction; Case studies; Recording and reproducing; Sound recording industry; United States
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.