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Encyclopedia of recorded sound
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis covers the entire history of recorded sound from Edison discs to current digital media, with new entries making up 60 percent of the text. Hoffmann (library science, Sam Houston State Univ.) has ... Read full review
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