Playback : from the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of music, machines, and money
"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
History
xxv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
9780306809842, 0306809842
53458990
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