Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money (Paperback)
Mark Coleman (author)Published: 02/02/2005
Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context-and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning. In a narrative that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with digital music, the ubiquitous iPod, and the file-sharing wars, this is a history we have all experienced in one way or another. From the Victrola, the 78, the 45, and the 33 1/3 to the 8-track, cassette, compact disc, DAT, and MP3, the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business in the twentieth century and beyond.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780306813900
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 191 x 133 mm
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