International History of the Recording IndustryThis comprehensive guide to the history of recording industries combines the technical history of the recording process and the industry that gre up to support it, with the history of the musical, vocal, and spoken repertoire that developed in parallel with recording. Updated and revised from teh critically acclaimed Finnish edition, it is the only generic history of recording currently available in English and of immense value to all students of cultural history. |
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Contents
The Microphone and Gramophone Fever | 36 |
Depression and Resurgence | 57 |
From the Copyright Wars to the World War | 83 |
The Age of Growth | 135 |
The Digital Era | 187 |
A Hundred Years of Recorded Sound | 213 |
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An International History of the Recording Industry Pekka Gronow,Ilpo Saunio No preview available - 1998 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | International History of the Recording Industry Literature & the Arts |
| Authors | Pekka Gronow, Ilpo Saunio |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 1999 |
| ISBN | 030470590X, 9780304705900 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Subjects | › Music / History & Criticism Music / Recording & Reproduction Social Science / Popular Culture |
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