The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to ZappaYale University Press, 2005 M01 1 - 246 pages First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating--or reversing--these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had--and will have--on our experience of music. |
Contents
Music becomes a thing | 9 |
Tomás | 29 |
Ceremonies of a solitary | 35 |
The social record | 57 |
The Cyrano machine | 71 |
Glenn Gould | 82 |
Phonography | 89 |
Nina | 132 |
Canned catharsis | 144 |
Saul | 172 |
Deus ex machina | 186 |
Common terms and phrases
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