Edison and Music
Author | : Thomas A. Edison, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Phonograph |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas A. Edison, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Phonograph |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas A. Edison, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Musical inventions and patents |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edmund Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081299311X |
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Author | : Greg Milner |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1429957158 |
In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented. Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. An American soldier monitoring Nazi radio transmissions stumbles onto the open yet revolutionary secret of magnetic tape. Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc" is marketed by the music industry as the second coming of Edison yet derided as heretical by analog loyalists. The music world becomes addicted to volume in the nineties and fights a self-defeating "loudness war" to get its fix. From Les Paul to Phil Spector to King Tubby, from vinyl to pirated CDs to iPods, Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever pulls apart musical history to answer a crucial question: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.
Author | : John Harvith |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1987-12-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Though the book ranks as an admirable exercise in rigorous scholarship, the prevailing tone is that of an informal conversation. That's what keeps you turning the pages. Serious record collectors will find that this book . . . will make them see--and hear--their disks in a wholly new perspective. The New York Times The first book of its kind ever published, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph presents the candid opinions of a wide variety of musicians--from those performing when the phonograph was first used to present-day artists--about the recording process, its effects, and its validity. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews, John and Susan Harvith have constructed a detailed picture of how musicians and technicians view the ramifications of recording, a picture that reveals a dichotomy between our public perception of the recorded music as truly representative and the performers' frequent mistrust of the medium.
Author | : Dewar MacLeod |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-03-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0813574684 |
Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey’s rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. The book includes chapters on the beginnings of musical recording in Thomas Edison’s factories in West Orange; early recording and the invention of the Victrola at Victor Records’ Camden complex; Rudy Van Gelder’s recording studios (for Blue Note, Prestige, and other jazz labels) in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs; Zacherley and the afterschool dance television show Disc-o-Teen, broadcast from Newark in the 1960s; Bruce Springsteen’s early years on the Jersey Shore at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park; and, the 1980s indie rock scene centered at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Concluding with a foray into the thriving local music scenes of today, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of the locales where New Jerseyans have gathered to rock, bop, and boogie.
Author | : Thomas A. Edison, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Booklet with remarks by Thomas Edison on his preference of music performance and genre, including his twenty-five favorite records recorded for the Re-Creations series.
Author | : Thomas A. Edison, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David J. Steffen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0786451564 |
Like any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of sound recording ushered in a period of explosive and imaginative experimentation, growth and competition. Between the commercial debut of Edison's "talking machine" in 1889 and the first commercial radio broadcast three decades later, the recording industry was uncharted territory in terms of both technology and content. This history of the earliest years of sound recording--the time between the phonograph's appearance and the licensing of commercial radio--examines a newly created technology and industry in search of itself. It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices that remain current today. The work chronicles the people, events and developments that turned a novel, expensive idea into a highly marketable commodity. Two appendices provide extensive lists of popular genre and ethnic recordings made between 1889 and 1919. A bibliography and index accompany the text.
Author | : Susan Schmidt Horning |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421410222 |
The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.--Emily Thompson, Princeton University "Science"