附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Two "circles of resonance": audience uses of recorded music -- "The Coney Island crowd": the phonograph and popular recordings before World War I -- "His master's voice": the Victor Talking Machine Company and the social reconstruction of the phonograph -- The phonograph and the evolution of "foreign" and "ethnic" records -- The gendered phonograph: women and recorded sound, 1890-1930 -- African American blues and the phonograph: from race records to rhythm and blues -- Economics and the invention of hillbilly records in the south -- A renewed flow of memories: the Depression and the struggle over "hit records" -- Popular recorded music within the context of national life.
摘要:Have records, compact discs and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? This is an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States.
