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As a starting point for considering the implications of
sound recording consult Evan Eisenberg's The Recording
Angel: Music, Records & Culture from Aristotle to
Zappa (New York, McGraw-Hill 87).
George Steiner's meditative In Bluebeard's Castle: Some
Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (New Haven,
Yale Uni Press 74) and Hans Keller's Essays on Music
(Cambridge, Cambridge 94) are more austere examinations.
Timothy Day's A Century of Recorded Music:
Listening to Musical History (New Haven, Yale Uni
Press 00), Michael
Chanan's
Repeated Takes: A Short History of
Recording & Its Effects on Music (London, Verso
95) and Norman Lebrecht's When The Music Stops (New
York, Simon & Schuster 96) explore recording's
consequences for the composer, artist and theatrical
performance.
Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow: The
Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
(Cambridge, Harvard Uni Press 90) and Greil Marcus' The
Dustbin of History (Cambridge, Harvard Uni Press 95)
provide other perspectives.
We've
pointed in our economy
guide and the media
profile to studies of the shape and size of the recording
industry. Robert
Burnett's The Global Jukebox: The International Music
Industry (London, Routledge 96) is a crisp
introduction. It highlights that the five major groups are
responsible for around 75% of global sales, a figure
unlikely to be seriously affected by the rise of new
technologies such as Napster and Gnutella.
There's
a more staid rendition in Russell Sanjek's From Print to Plastic: Publishing
& Promoting
America's Popular Music, 1900-1980 (New York,
Institute for Studies in American Music 83) and Pennies From
Heaven: The American Popular Music Business in the
20th Century (New York, Oxford Uni Press 96), the
latter co-authored with David Sanjek.
For the technology two starting points are Andre
Millard's
America On Record: A History of Recorded Sound
(Cambridge, Cambridge Uni Press 95) and David Morton's
more technical Off
The Record: The Technology & Culture of Sound
Recording In America (New Brunswick, Rutgers Uni Press
00).
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