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Sound recording : the life story of a technology
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Sound recording : the life story of a technology

Author: David Morton
Publisher: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series: Greenwood technographies
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Morton
ISBN: 0313330905 9780313330902
OCLC Number: 54972798
Description: xv, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Birth of recording -- Out of the laboratory -- The commercial debut of sound recording devices -- The introduction of discs -- Recording in the business world -- The heyday of the phonograph -- The talkies -- Records and radio in the United States -- The crucial 1930s -- Recording in World War II -- The postwar scene -- Hi-fi -- Revolution in the studio -- Mobile sound -- Cassette to compact disc -- Record companies versus the world -- Online music and the future of listening.
Series Title: Greenwood technographies
Responsibility: David L. Morton, Jr.

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