Format:
Online-Ressource (279 p.)
ISBN:
9780195100464
Content:
Kenney examines the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound: from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry became more complex and less powerful
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Introduction: Recorded Music and Collective Memory; 1 Two "Circles of Resonance": Audience Uses of Recorded Music; 2 "The Coney Island Crowd": The Phonograph and Popular Recordings before World War I; 3 "His Master's Voice": The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph; 4 The Phonograph and the Evolution of "Foreign" and "Ethnic" Records; 5 The Gendered Phonograph: Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930; 6 African American Blues and the Phonograph: From Race Records to Rhythm and Blues
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7 Economics and the Invention of Hillbilly Records in the South8 A Renewed Flow of Memories: The Depression and the Struggle over "Hit Records"; 9 Popular Recorded Music within the Context of National Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198026044
Additional Edition:
Print version Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
Language:
English
Keywords:
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