Recorded music in American life : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / William Howland Kenney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenney, William Howland.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Social aspects--United States.

Popular music.

Phonograph--Social aspects--United States.

Phonograph.

Sound recording industry--United States--History.

Sound recording industry.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehowtransformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself.Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Recorded Music and Collective Memory; 1 Two ""Circles of Resonance"": Audience Uses of Recorded Music; 2 ""The Coney Island Crowd"": The Phonograph and Popular Recordings before World War I; 3 ""His Master's Voice"": The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph; 4 The Phonograph and the Evolution of ""Foreign"" and ""Ethnic"" Records; 5 The Gendered Phonograph: Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930; 6 African American Blues and the Phonograph: From Race Records to Rhythm and Blues

7 Economics and the Invention of Hillbilly Records in the South8 A Renewed Flow of Memories: The Depression and the Struggle over ""Hit Records""; 9 Popular Recorded Music within the Context of National Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988014-X

0-19-534678-5

1-282-36697-1

0-19-802604-8

9786612366970

0-19-517177-2

1-60256-489-2

OCLC:

476011450