Music, Sound, and Technology in America

Music, Sound, and Technology in America PDF

Author: Timothy D. Taylor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-06-19

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0822349469

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This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and mediated sound. Through readings from advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, popular fiction, correspondence, and sheet music, one gains an understanding of how early-20th-century Americans changed from music makers into consumers.