From Edison to Marconi: The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music
- Author: Steffen, David J.
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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon
- 2. Inventing the Music Industry
- 3. Edison’s Invention
- 4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision
- 5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology?
- 6. “A&R”: Artists and Repertoire
- 7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox
- 8. Toward Mass Production
- 9. Recording and Recordings
- 10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality
- 11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market
- 12. A&R in the Early Years—Styles and Genres
- 13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs
- 14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo
- 15. Most of the Music
- 16. Immigration and Recordings
- 17. Culture Swing—The Ethnic Recordings
- 18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition
- 19. The Caruso Effect
- 20. Enter Marconi
- Appendix 1. Recordings in Popular Non-Ethnic Genres, 1889–1919
- Appendix 2. Ethnic Recordings, 1889–1919
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index