1st Edition
Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895-1925
452 Pages
by
Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
458 Pages
by
Routledge
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Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought “popular” music into America's living rooms! Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were... Read more
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- How This Project Began
- What Is Covered in Entries
- Sources of Information
- The Beginning of the Recording Industry
- What Were the Artists Really Like?
- Record Sales--Not Known Today
- State of Technology Determining Who Recorded
- Conditions Under Which Records Were Made
- Stage Celebrities Versus Professional Recording Artists
- Advantages to Employing Professional Record Artists
- The Artists
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Tim Gracyk, Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper
