From Edison to Marconi: The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Preface     
• Introduction     
• 1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon     
• 2. Inventing the Music Industry     
• 3. Edison’s Invention     
• 4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision     
• 5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology?     
• 6. “A&R”: Artists and Repertoire     
• 7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox     
• 8. Toward Mass Production     
• 9. Recording and Recordings     
• 10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality     
• 11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market     
• 12. A&R in the Early Years—Styles and Genres     
• 13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs     
• 14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo     
• 15. Most of the Music     
• 16. Immigration and Recordings     
• 17. Culture Swing—The Ethnic Recordings     
• 18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition     
• 19. The Caruso Effect     
• 20. Enter Marconi     
• Appendix 1. Recordings in Popular Non-Ethnic Genres, 1889–1919     
• Appendix 2. Ethnic Recordings, 1889–1919     
• Notes     
• Bibliography     
• Index