Recorded Music in American Life
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Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historic
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historic
The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings betwee
Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "
This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera conductors of the twentieth century. From child prodigy pianist a
Kenney examines the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the era of the phonograph's rise and d