There is more to sound recording than just recording sound Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music the technology is a catalyst In this award-winning text Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging deeply informative consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century from Edison to the Internet Fully revised & updated this new edition adds coverage of mashups & Auto-Tune explores recent developments in file-sharing &
Includes:: an expanded conclusion & bibliography