1. Clarence -- 2. Music becomes a thing -- 3. Tomas -- 4. Ceremonies of a solitary -- 5. The social record -- 6. The Cyrano machine -- 7. Glenn Gould -- 8. Phonography -- 9. Nina -- 10. Canned catharsis -- 11. Saul -- 12. Deus ex machina -- Afterword to the Italian edition (1996) -- Finale quasi una fantasia (2004)
Summary
"First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating - or reversing - these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had - and will have - on our experience of music."--Jacket
Notes
First ed. has subtitle: explorations in phonography