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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 - Kenney, William Howland
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Here, 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 decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound--from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry became more complex and less powerful. He argues that the phonograph and the recording industry served neither to impose a preference for high culture nor a degraded popular taste, but rather expressed a diverse ...

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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 2003, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195171778

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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 1999, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195100464

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