Inventing the recording : the phonograph and national culture in Spain, 1877-1914 / Eva Moreda Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreda Rodríguez, Eva, author.

Series:

Currents in Latin Amer and Iberian Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phonograph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact, through the analysis of a specific and unique national context: Spain.

Contents:

Introduction : Global technologies, local sounds

1. Imagining the phonograph, 1877-1888

2. Traveling phonographs, 1888-1900

3. Inventing the recording : Gabinetes fonográficos and early commercial phonography in Madrid, 1896-1905

4. Science, urban space, and early phonography in Barcelona, 1898-1914

5. Gabinetes fonográficos in Valencia, 1899-1901

6. (Dis)embodied voices : Recording singers, 1896-1914

7. Consuming and collecting records in Spain, 1896-1905

Conclusion : From national to global.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-755208-0

0-19-755209-9

0-19-755207-2

OCLC:

1251445201