America on Record

Contents

• Preface; Introduction;
• Part I . The Acoustic Era:
• 1. The inventors;
• 2. A phonograph in every home;
• 3. The international industry of recorded sound;
• 4. The music;
• 5. Recorded sound in the Jazz Age;
• Part II . The Electrical Era:
• 6. The machines;
• 7. Competing technologies;
• 8. Empires of sound;
• 9. Swing and the mass audience;
• 10. High fidelity at last;
• 11. Rock'n'roll and the revolution in music;
• 12. The record;
• 13. The studio;
• 14. Perfecting studio recording;
• 15. The cassette culture;
• Part III . The Digital Era:
• 16. The media conglomerates;
• 17. Into the digital era;
• 18. Consolidation and connectivity in the digital era.