The narrative history of playback technology, from the Victrola to MP3: how the technology shapes the music, how the music changes the technology, and how technology drives the business. Suddenly, popular music resembles an alien landscape. The great common ground of 45s, LPs, and even compact discs is rapidly falling by the wayside to be replaced by binary bits of sound. In the 21st century, radical advances in music technology threaten to overshadow the music itself. Indeed, today the generations divide over how they ...
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The narrative history of playback technology, from the Victrola to MP3: how the technology shapes the music, how the music changes the technology, and how technology drives the business. Suddenly, popular music resembles an alien landscape. The great common ground of 45s, LPs, and even compact discs is rapidly falling by the wayside to be replaced by binary bits of sound. In the 21st century, radical advances in music technology threaten to overshadow the music itself. Indeed, today the generations divide over how they listen to the music, not what kinds of music they enjoy. Playback is the first book to place the staggering history of sound reproduction within its larger social and cultural context. Concisely told via a narrative arc that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with digital music, this is a history that we have all directly experienced in one way or another. From the Vic trola to the 78 to the 45 to the 33 1/3 to the 8track to the cassette to the compact disc to MP3 and beyond (not to mention everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning), the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business, in the 20th century.
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Near Fine in very good + jacket. From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Slight curl to top edge of jacket on front panel. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 237 pp.
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-1. Signed by author Mark Coleman on the FFEP with a brief inscription to the previous owner. First Edition, first printing with full number line in fine/ like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Fine. Near Fine Dj. 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall 1st printing with number 1 in line on coyright page. Looks new with the slightest of curling to a small part of the very top edge of the front panel of the jacket.
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New. No Jacket. The Book is Brand New, Has No Dust Jacket. Has a partial sticker on the lower spine and stickers on the back cover with a black mark on the lower outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0306809842. ISBN/EAN: 9780306809842. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560748178.
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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations.
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