Bibliograph

Playback, from the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of music, machines, and money, Mark Coleman

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Label

Playback, from the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of music, machines, and money, Mark Coleman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Playback

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53458990

Responsibility statement

Mark Coleman

Review

"Playback is the first book to place the 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 ditial 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, and MP3, the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business, in the 20th century and beyond."--Jacket

Sub title

from the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of music, machines, and money

Table Of Contents

Magic in a tin can -- War on canned music -- Low road to high fidelity -- Ponytail ribbons, popsicles and peanut brittle -- Dreaming in stereo -- Last dance -- Adventures on wheels of steel -- Sudden death of the record -- Canned music's last stand

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