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Like any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of sound recording ushered in a period of explosive and imaginative experimentation, growth and competition. Between the commercial debut of Edison's "talking machine" in 1889 and the first commercial radio broadcast three decades later, the recording industry was uncharted territory in terms of both technology and content.
This history of the earliest years of sound recording--the time between the phonograph's appearance and the licensing of commercial radio--examines a newly created technology and industry in search of itself. It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices that remain current today. The work chronicles the people, events and developments that turned a novel, expensive idea into a highly marketable commodity. Two appendices provide extensive lists of popular genre and ethnic recordings made between 1889 and 1919. A bibliography and index accompany the text.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon
2. Inventing the Music Industry
3. Edison's Invention
4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision
5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology?
6. "A&R": Artists and Repertoire
7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox
8. Toward Mass Production
9. Recording and Recordings
10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality
11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market
12. A&R in the Early Years—Styles and Genres
13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs
14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo
15. Most of the Music
16. Immigration and Recordings
17. Culture Swing—The Ethnic Recordings
18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition
19. The Caruso Effect
20. Enter Marconi
Appendix 1. Recordings in Popular Non-Ethnic Genres, 1889-1919
Appendix 2. Ethnic Recordings, 1889-1919
Notes
Bibliography
Index
