History Of Recording Music

  history of recording music: Perfecting Sound Forever Greg Milner, 2009-06-09 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.
  history of recording music: International History of the Recording Industry Pekka Gronow, Ilpo Saunio, 1999-07-26 This book explores the fascinating world of the record business, its technology, the music and the musicians from Edison's phonograph to the compact disc. The great artists - Caruso, Toscanini, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and their successors - all achieved fame through the medium of records, and in turn have influenced the recording industry. But just as important are the record producers, those invisible figures who decide from behind the scenes how a record will sound. The history of recording is also the history of record companies: the book follows the vicissitudes of the multinational giants, without neglecting the small pioneering labels which have brought valuable new talents to the fore.
  history of recording music: Repeated Takes Michael Chanan, 2020-05-05 Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music into a saleable object, and describes the upset which this caused in musical culture. He asks: What goes on in a recording studio? How does it affect the music? Do we listen to music differently because of reproduction? Repeated Takes relates the growth and development of the industry, both technically and economically; the effects of the microphone on interpretation in both classical and popular music; and the impact of all these factors on musical styles and taste. This highly readable book also traces the connections between the development of recording and the rise of new forms of popular music, and discusses arguments among classical musicians about microphone technique and studio practice.
  history of recording music: Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording Julian Colbeck, Alan Parsons, 2014-09-01 (Technical Reference). More than simply the book of the award-winning DVD set, Art & Science of Sound Recording, the Book takes legendary engineer, producer, and artist Alan Parsons' approaches to sound recording to the next level. In book form, Parsons has the space to include more technical background information, more detailed diagrams, plus a complete set of course notes on each of the 24 topics, from The Brief History of Recording to the now-classic Dealing with Disasters. Written with the DVD's coproducer, musician, and author Julian Colbeck, ASSR, the Book offers readers a classic big picture view of modern recording technology in conjunction with an almost encyclopedic list of specific techniques, processes, and equipment. For all its heft and authority authored by a man trained at London's famed Abbey Road studios in the 1970s ASSR, the Book is also written in plain English and is packed with priceless anecdotes from Alan Parsons' own career working with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and countless others. Not just informative, but also highly entertaining and inspirational, ASSR, the Book is the perfect platform on which to build expertise in the art and science of sound recording.
  history of recording music: Recording History Christopher Silver, 2022-06-28 A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices--of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons--whose music still resonates well into our present.
  history of recording music: America on Record Andre Millard, 2005-12-05 This study provides a history of sound recording from the acoustic phonograph to digital sound technology. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
  history of recording music: Record Cultures Kyle Barnett, 2020-02-20 Record Cultures tells the story of how early U.S. commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Amid dramatic technological and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s, small recording companies in the United States began to explore the genres that would later be known as jazz, blues, and country. Smaller record labels, many based in rural or out of the way Midwestern and Southern towns, were willing to take risks on the country’s regional vernacular music as a way to compete with more established recording labels. Recording companies’ relationship with radio grew closer as both industries were on the rise, propelled by new technologies. Radio, which had become immensely popular, began broadcasting more recorded music in place of live performances, and this created profitable symbiosis. With the advent of the talkies, the film industry completed the media trifecta. The novelty of recorded sound was replacing film accompanists, and the popularity of movie musicals solidified film’s connections with the radio and recording industries. By the early 1930s, the recording industry had gone from being part of the largely autonomous phonograph industry to being major media industry of its own, albeit deeply tied to—and, in some cases, owned by—the radio and film industries. The triangular relationships between these media industries marked the first major entertainment and media conglomerates in U.S. history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research. It will be of interest to scholars of popular music, media studies, sound studies, American culture, and the history of film, television, and radio.
  history of recording music: Performing Music in the Age of Recording Robert Philip, 2004-04-10 What is the relationship between performance and recording? What is the impact of recording on the lives of musicians? Comparison of the lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of today. Survey of the changing attitudes toward freedom of expression, the globalization of performing styles and the rise of the period instrument movement.
  history of recording music: A Century of Recorded Music Timothy Day, 2000-01-01 Looks at the history of recording technology and its effect on music, including artistic performance, listening habits, and audience participation.
  history of recording music: Capturing Sound Mark Katz, 2010-10-07 Fully revised and updated, this text adds coverage of mashups and auto-tune, explores recent developments in file sharing, and includes an expanded conclusion and bibliography.
  history of recording music: Recording History Peter Martland, 2013 In Recording History, Peter Martland uses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, it surveys the commercial and business activities of the British record industry like no other work of recording history has before. Martland's study charts the successes and failures of this industry and its impact on domestic entertainment. Showcasing its many colorful pioneers from both sides of the Atlantic, Recording History is first and foremost an account of The Gramophone Company Ltd, a precursor to today's recording giant EMI, and then the most important British record company active from the late 19th century until the end of the second decade of the twentieth century. Martland's history spans the years from the original inventors through industrial and market formation and final take-off--including the riveting battle in recording formats. Special attention is given to the impact of the First World War and the that followed in its wake. Scholars of recording history will find in Martland's study the story of the development of the recording studio, of the artists who made the first records (from which some like Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso earned a fortune), and the change records wrought in the relationship between performer and audience, transforming the reception and appreciation of musical culture. Filling a much-needed gap in scholarship, Recording History documents the beginnings of the end of the contemporary international record industry.
  history of recording music: Music, Sound, and Technology in America Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, Tony Grajeda, 2012-06-19 This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and mediated sound. Through readings from advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, popular fiction, correspondence, and sheet music, one gains an understanding of how early-20th-century Americans changed from music makers into consumers.
  history of recording music: Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry Clinton Heylin, 2010-03-04 An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare. In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available to true fans. Bootleg! tells the whole fascinating saga, from its underground infancy through the CD 'protection gap' era, when its legal status threatened the major labels' monopoly, to the explosion of trading via Napster and Gnutella on MP-3 files. Clinton Heylin provides a highly readable account of the busts, the defeats and victories in court; the personalities – many interviewed for the first time for this book. This classic history has now been updated and revised to include today's digital era and the emergence of a whole new bootleg culture.
  history of recording music: Temples of Sound Jim Cogan, William Clark, 2003 Recounts the stories of the music world's most notable recording studios and of history-making records that were made at each, from the John Coltrane sessions in Rudy Van Gelder's living room to Frank Sinatra's recordings at Capital Records.
  history of recording music: Setting the Record Straight Colin Symes, 2004-11-29 The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it.
  history of recording music: The Recording Industry Geoffrey P. Hull, 2004 The Recording Industry presents a brief but comprehensive overview of how records are made, marketed, and sold. Designed for an introductory survey course, but also applicable to the amateur musician, the book opens with an overview of popular music and its place in American society, along with the key players in the recording industry: record companies; music publishers; and performance venues. In the book's second part, the making of a recording is traced from production through marketing and then retail sales. Finally, in part 3, legal issues, including copyright and problems of piracy, are addressed. - BOOK JACKET.
  history of recording music: A&R Pioneers Brian Ward, Patrick Huber, 2018-06-26 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019 A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as record producer. Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.
  history of recording music: The History of Music Production Richard James Burgess, 2014 The History of Music Production offers an authoritative, concise, and accessible overview of nearly 140 years of production of recorded music. It describes what role the music producer has played in shaping the creation, perception, propagation, business, and use of music, and discusses the future of the music production industry.
  history of recording music: Studying Popular Music Richard Middleton, 1990-04-16 A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the last 200 years.
  history of recording music: The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music Nicholas Cook, 2009-11-26 Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.
  history of recording music: Tape Op Larry Crane, 2010-01-01 (Book). This book features interviews and articles from issues 11 to 20 of Tape Op , an independently published magazine founded in 1996. With a fiercely loyal readership, Tape Op covers creative and practical music recording topics from the famous studios to musicians creating masterpieces in their bedrooms. Creativity, technique, equipment, passion and learning collide in this entertaining, value-rich publication. Interviews and articles in this volume include Abbey Road Studio, Butch Vig, Jim Dickinson, Joe Chiccarelli, Ani DiFranco, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, and Ween.
  history of recording music: Joe Batten's Book Joseph Batten, 1956
  history of recording music: Inventing the Recording Eva Moreda Rodríguez, 2021 Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the 'traveling phonographs' and salones fonográficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, small businesses that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.
  history of recording music: On Becoming a Rock Musician H. Stith Bennett, 2017-05-30 In the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a rock musician was fundamentally different than playing other kinds of music. It was a learned rather than a taught skill. In On Becoming a Rock Musician, sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes someone a rock musician and what persuades others to take him seriously in this role. The book explores how bands form; the backstage and onstage reality of playing in a band; how bands promote themselves and interact with audiences and music professionals like DJs; and the role of performance.
  history of recording music: Recording Music on Location Bruce Bartlett, 2014-05-09 Recording Music on Location provides an exceptional collection of information regarding all aspects of recording outside of the studio. Featuring clear explanations on how to achieve professional results, this book is divided into two distinct sections: popular music and classical music. Whether you record in the local rock club, jazz café, or in an orchestra hall, Bartlett offers sage advice on each stage of the process of location recording. Packed with hints and tips, this book is a great reference for anyone planning to venture outside of the studio. Audio examples, tracking sheets, weblinks, and downloadable checklists are available on the companion website at www.focalpress.com/cw/bartlett. This edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on iOS devices, USB thumb-drive recorders, and digital consoles with built-in recorders, along with updated specs on recording equipment, software, and hardware. This edition will also show you how to prepare recordings for the web and live audio streaming, and covers spectral analysis, noise reduction, and parallel compression. A new case study will go in depth on classical-music recording.
  history of recording music: Echo and Reverb Peter Doyle, 2024-08-06 Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes. Author Peter Doyle traces the development of these acoustically-created worlds from the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus to the dramatic acoustic architectures of the medieval cathedral, the grand concert halls of the 19th century, and those created by the humble parlor phonograph of the early 20th century, and finally, the revolutionary age of rock 'n' roll. Citing recordings ranging from Gene Austin's 'My Blue Heaven' to Elvis Presley's 'Mystery Train,' Doyle illustrates how non-musical sound constructs, with all their rich and contradictory baggage, became a central feature of recorded music. The book traces various imagined worlds created with synthetic echo and reverb--the heroic landscapes of the cowboy west, the twilight shores of south sea islands, the uncanny alleys of dark cityscapes, the weird mindspaces of horror movies, the private and collective spaces of teen experience, and the funky juke-joints of the mind.
  history of recording music: The Musician's Way : A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness Gerald Klickstein, 2009-08-06 In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.
  history of recording music: Decomposed Kyle Devine, 2019-10-15 The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disposed of. Devine's story focuses on three forms of materiality. Before 1950, 78 rpm records were made of shellac, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000, formats such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today, recordings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harvest and process these materials, from women and children in the Global South to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us that vinyl records are oil products, and that the so-called vinyl revival is part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices required to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as finished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a range of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to what music is, how it works, and why it matters.
  history of recording music: Recording Classical Music Robert Toft, 2019-09-04 Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate live environments into recorded sound. The book covers theory and the technical aspects of recording from sound source to delivery: the nature of soundwaves and their behavior in rooms, microphone types and the techniques of recording in stereo, proximity and phase, file types, tracking and critical listening, loudness, meters, and the post-production processes of EQ, control of dynamic range (compressors, limiters, dynamic EQ, de-essers), and reverberation (both digital reflection simulation and convolution), with some discussion of commercially available digital plugins. The final part of the book applies this knowledge to common recording situations, showcasing not only strategies for recording soloists and small ensembles, along with case studies of several recordings, but also studio techniques that can enhance or replace the capture of performances in ambient spaces, such as close miking and the addition of artificial reverberation. Recording Classical Music provides the tools necessary for anyone interested in classical music production to track, mix, and deliver audio recordings themselves or to supervise the work of others.
  history of recording music: The Art of Record Production Richard James Burgess, 1997 What kind of producer do you want to be? - How do you get started? - What's the job description? - Will they still love you tomorrow - Producer managers - How do you deal with the artist, the record company and the artist's manager? - Lawyers - Difficulties and pitfalls - Success and money - What are the timeless ingredients in a hit record? - Frequently asked questions - Is classical, jazz and country production any different from rock, pop and R & B? - Technology rules - The final cut.
  history of recording music: The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf, 2011-11-04 The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a keywords book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today. Each essay traces the genealogy of the term or issue it addresses, including related issues and controversies, positions and problematizes those issues within larger bodies of scholarship, and provides specific examples drawn from shows and films. Essays both re-examine traditional topics and introduce underexplored areas. Reflecting the concerns of scholars and students alike, the authors emphasize critical and accessible perspectives, and supplement theory with concrete examples that may be accessed through links to the handbook's website. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a wide range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of one of America's most lively, enduring artistic traditions. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical will engage all readers interested in the form, from students to scholars to fans and aficionados, as it analyses the complex relationships among the creators, performers, and audiences who sustain the genre.
  history of recording music: The Great British Recording Studios Howard Massey, 2015-10-01 (Book). The Great British Recording Studios tells the story of the iconic British facilities where many of the most important recordings of all time were made. The first comprehensive account of British recording studios ever published, it was written with the cooperation of the British APRS (Association of Professional Recording Services, headed by Sir George Martin) to document the history of the major British studios of the 1960s and 1970s and to help preserve their legacy. The book surveys the era's most significant British studios (including Abbey Road, Olympic, and Trident), with complete descriptions of each studio's physical facilities and layout, along with listings of equipment and key personnel, as well as details about its best-known technical innovations and a discography of the major recordings done there. Seamlessly interweaving narrative text with behind-the-scenes anecdotes from dozens of internationally renowned record producers and a wealth of photographs (many never published before), this book brings to life the most famous British studios and the people who created magic there. Meticulously researched and organized, The Great British Recording Studios will inform and inspire students of the recording arts, music professionals, casual music fans, and anyone interested in the acoustically pristine facilities, groundbreaking techniques, and innovative artists and technicians that have shaped the course of modern recording.
  history of recording music: Wonderstruck Brian Selznick, 2015-09-03 Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.
  history of recording music: America on Record A. J. Millard, 2005 With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the beautiful music that was the preserve of the wealthy became a mass-produced consumer good, cheap enough to be available to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in every home. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound provides a history of sound recording from the first thin sheet of tinfoil that was manipulated into retaining sound to the home recordings of rappers in the 1980s and the high-tech studios of the 1990s. This book examines the important technical developments of acoustic, electric, and digital sound reproduction while outlining the cultural impact of recorded music and movies. This second edition brings the story up to date, describing the digital revolution of sound recording with the rise of computers, Napster, DVD, MP3, and iPod.
  history of recording music: Music Is History Questlove, 2021-10-19 New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years—now in paperback Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America.
  history of recording music: Recording the Blues Robert M. W. Dixon, John Godrich, 1970
  history of recording music: This Day in Music Neil Cossar, 2014-08 Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.
  history of recording music: X-ray Audio Stephen Coates, 2015 Many older people in Russia remember seeing and hearing mysterious vinyl flexi-discs when they were young. They had partial images of skeletons on them, could be played like gramophone records and were called 'bones' or 'ribs'. They contained forbidden music. X-Ray Audio tells the secret history of these ghostly records and of the people who made, bought and sold them. Lavishly illustrated in full colour with images of discs collected in Russia, it is a unique story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour.
  history of recording music: Segregating Sound Karl Hagstrom Miller, 2010-02-11 In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogs of “race” and “hillbilly” records produced by the phonograph industry. Such links among race, region, and music were new. Black and white artists alike had played not only blues, ballads, ragtime, and string band music, but also nationally popular sentimental ballads, minstrel songs, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and Broadway hits. In a cultural history filled with musicians, listeners, scholars, and business people, Miller describes how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a “musical color line,” a cultural parallel to the physical color line that came to define the Jim Crow South. Segregated sound emerged slowly through the interactions of southern and northern musicians, record companies that sought to penetrate new markets across the South and the globe, and academic folklorists who attempted to tap southern music for evidence about the history of human civilization. Contending that people’s musical worlds were defined less by who they were than by the music that they heard, Miller challenges assumptions about the relation of race, music, and the market.
  history of recording music: Women in Audio Leslie Gaston-Bird, 2019-12-06 Women in Audio features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the trade. Beginning with a historical view, the book covers the achievements of women in various audio professions and then focuses on organizations that support and train women and girls in the industry. What follows are eight chapters divided by discipline, highlighting accomplished women in various audio fields: radio; sound for film and television; music recording and electronic music; hardware and software design; acoustics; live sound and sound for theater; education; audio for games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, as well as immersive sound. Women in Audio is a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and students looking to gain insight into the careers of trailblazing women in audio-related fields and represents required reading for those looking to add diversity to their music technology programs.
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understanding of the history and development of recording and production technology from the 1950s through the eras of: • direct to tape and mono recording (c.1950 – 1963) • early multitrack...

Burn Brightly and Fade Fast: The Story of Sun Records
Located off the beaten path in Memphis, and far from being a commercial success, Sun Records made a name for itself through its diverse artists, unique sound, and ability to reach across …

From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the
In broad strokes, the history of the music industry can be seen in three phases, each dominated by a different kind of organization: 1. Music publishing houses, which occupied the power …

A Biographical History of Sound Recording
A Biographical History of Sound Recording. Dan Bendrups. 1. Introduction. This article presents a unique perspective on the early recording history of Rapanui (Easter Island) music by relating …

The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz - JSTOR
In fact, there's no question that the particular instrumentation, manner of playing, and repertory of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, decisively. assisted by the superb recording technique of the …

A Recorded Sound Timeline Compiled by the Recorded Sound …
A Recorded Sound Timeline Compiled by the Recorded Sound Section Library of Congress. First Recorded Sound 1857 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invents the phonautograph, a device that traces, but cannot play back sound waves. The intent is to visually represent sound onto soot-covered paper. These “phonautograms” would be ...

Electronic Music and Creative Tape Recording• - World Radio History
This book sets out to show how electronic music can be made at home. It describes how the sounds are generated and then how these may be recorded to build up the final composition. Of course it is not expected that the average enthusiast will own or have access to a professional recording studio with 7

Historical Development of Magnetic Recording and Tape Recorder 3
In this report I briefly describe the history of sound recording, particularly the progress and relation of magnetic recording technologies in the compact cassette system. I also describe the product concept and downsizing technologies of the Walkman. In the last section, I explain the development of digital audio tape

Recording Technology History - Regency TR-1
Recording Technology History notes revised July 6, 2005, by Steve Schoenherr 1. Origins 2. Cylinder vs. Disc 3. New Popular Music 4. Electric Era Replaces Acoustic Era 5. Music for the Masses 6. Magnetic Tape Recording Invented 7. Tape Recording Comes to America 8. War of the Speeds 9. Rock and Roll 10. From Stereo to Cassette 11. Video Tape ...

Recorded Music Technology Timeline - B.B. King Museum
Recorded Music Technology Timeline. 1877 The human voice was recorded on tin foil by Thomas Edison. 1888 Invention of the gramophone, a device that recorded sound onto a disc, allowing recordings to be mass produced. 1890s The nickel jukebox, which used bulky cylinders, became popular. 1906 The Victrola was introduced.

The History of Audio Recording - orchardoo.com
1963 - Philips demonstrated its first compact audiocassette using high-quality BASF polyester tape. The system was introduced in 1965 and used 1/8 inch tape with 4-tracks running at 1-7/8 ips, allowing 30 or 45 minutes of stereo music per side.

Recording the History of Recording: A Retro­ spective of the Field
Sound recording was one of the great inventions of the nineteenth century. Records became one of the new media, like film, radio and television, which have had a huge influence on the culture of the twentieth century. But for some reason, the study of the history of sound recording seems to have fallen into the cracks between history,

History of Music Timeline
Classical 1750 - 1820. 1822 - the Royal Academy of Music in London is founded. 1840 - the saxophone is invented by Adolphe Sax 1871 - the Royal Albert Hall in London is opened 1875 - Tchaikovsky composes Swan Lake. 1877 - Thomas Edison …

A Selected History of Magnetic Recording - Richard Hess
In 1896, the Danish electrical engineer Valdemar Poulsen designed the first working magnetic re-cording device, which he called the “Telegraphone”. The wire recorder, patented in 1898, was enthusiasti-cally received at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900.

Once Upon Time: A Superficial History of Early Tape - Scholars …
corporation to fine-tune tape recording. The fruit of Crosby and Mullin’s collaboration, amplified by American capitalism, was magnetic tape recording very much as we know it today – not only for sound but also video, multitrack recording, computer …

A Thirty-five Year History And Evolution of the Recording Studio
An histo*ic review of the three and one half decades from the mid forties to 1980, provide a most interesting period of development of the recording studio, control room, and reverberation rooms and devices. Some basic fundamental techniques have weathered the test of time.

The History of Music Production Richard James Burgess
Introduction 1. Beginnings 2 Understanding Sound Toward Recording 3 The Phonograph 5 The First Producers 12. The Acoustic Period 16. 2. Acoustic Recording 16 International Expansion 18 The Third Major Label 19 The Sooys 20 Documentation of Cultural Expression 24 …

Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording …
The project illuminates the history of popular music in the Americas from 1890 to 1925, a period known as the acoustical era of sound reproduction, when sounds were recorded and played back using mechanical devices rather than electrical amplification.

Jazz and the Recording Process - Ben Bierman
As a sub-topic in the vast subject of jazz and technology, this includes the history of recording technology, together with its invention and evolution as an analog process through the move to digital recording.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE - Audio Engineering Society
designed their own digital recording system and premiered its commercial use at the annual New Year's Day extravaganza in Vienna, 1 January 1979. This was the first com- mercial digital recording made by a European record company. What follows is a chronological history of the dawn of digital recording. The author has

Music technology Draft GCE A level and AS subject content
understanding of the history and development of recording and production technology from the 1950s through the eras of: • direct to tape and mono recording (c.1950 – 1963) • early multitrack...

Burn Brightly and Fade Fast: The Story of Sun Records
Located off the beaten path in Memphis, and far from being a commercial success, Sun Records made a name for itself through its diverse artists, unique sound, and ability to reach across racial divides to produce ground-breaking music. Southern country and R&B met both literally and figuratively at Sun Records.

From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the
In broad strokes, the history of the music industry can be seen in three phases, each dominated by a different kind of organization: 1. Music publishing houses, which occupied the power center of the industry when sheet music was the primary vehicle for dis-seminating popular music; 2. Record companies, which ascended to power as recorded mu-

A Biographical History of Sound Recording
A Biographical History of Sound Recording. Dan Bendrups. 1. Introduction. This article presents a unique perspective on the early recording history of Rapanui (Easter Island) music by relating it through the life story of master musician Luis Avaka "Kiko" Pate who passed away in 2008.

The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz - JSTOR
In fact, there's no question that the particular instrumentation, manner of playing, and repertory of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, decisively. assisted by the superb recording technique of the Victor Talking Ma-. chine Company, were copied by hundreds of young musicians, many of.