Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money by Mark Coleman

Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money

Mark Coleman

288 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history music technology challenging informative slow-paced

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Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context-and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash ...

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