Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 349 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. History of the phonograph in text and photographs covering the technology advances and the business enterprises that promoted phonographs and sound recording.

Subject

1. Phonograph.
2. Sound recordings.

Genre/Form

1. sound recordings.
2. Sound recordings
3. Enregistrements sonores.

Contents

1. Talking tin foil -- Cylinders in business -- Entertainment for a nickel -- Emile Berliner's disc -- At home with the phonograph -- The improving gramophone -- Europe welcomes the talking machine -- A musical instrument -- Victor makes a debut -- The Red Seal epoch -- Decline and fall of the cylinder -- The orchestra came last -- Jazz in Chippendale -- Symphonies from Europe -- The flattened Victrola -- Recording becomes electric -- Largess from the microphone -- The phonograph in twilight -- Proceeds from a merger -- The road back -- A war and its aftermath -- Renaissance at a new speed -- 1955 : annus mirabilis -- The sound of stereo -- En route to a mass market.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain