Description |
349 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Talking tin foil -- Cylinders in business -- Entertainment for a nickel -- Emile Berliner's disc -- At home with the phonograph -- The improving gramophone -- Europe welcomes the talking machine -- A musical instrument -- Victor makes a debut -- The Red Seal epoch -- Decline and fall of the cylinder -- The orchestra came last -- Jazz in Chippendale -- Symphonies from Europe -- The flattened Victrola -- Recording becomes electric -- Largess from the microphone -- The phonograph in twilight -- Proceeds from a merger -- The road back -- A war and its aftermath -- Renaissance at a new speed -- 1955 : annus mirabilis -- The sound of stereo -- En route to a mass market |
Summary |
History of the phonograph in text and photographs covering the technology advances and the business enterprises that promoted phonographs and sound recording |
Notes |
"Sounds of the century"--Cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Phonograph.
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Sound recordings.
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LC no. |
76057253 |
ISBN |
0020326807 (paperback) |
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0025429604 |
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