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Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 Introduction 7 1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon 15 2. Inventing the Music Industry 20 3. Edison's Invention 000 4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision 000 5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology? 000 6. "A&R": Artists and Repertoire 000 7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox 000 8. Toward Mass Production 000 9. Recording and Recordings 000 10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality 000 11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market 000 12. A&R in the Early Years-Styles and Genres 000 13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs 000 14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo 000 15. Most of the Music 000 16. Immigration and Recordings 000 17. Culture Swing-The Ethnic Recordings 000 18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition 000 19. The Caruso Effect 000 20. Enter Marconi 000 Appendix 1. Recordings in Popular Non-Ethnic Genres, 1889-1919 000 Appendix 2. Ethnic Recordings, 1889-1919 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Sound recordings -- History.
Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History.
Sound recording industry -- History.