Author: George L. FrowPublisher: Sevenoaks : G. L. Frow
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Edison Cylinder Phonographs
Author: George L. FrowPublisher: Sevenoaks : G. L. Frow
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Edison Cylinder Phonograph Companion
Author: George L. FrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A Complete Manual of the Edison Phonograph
Author: George E. TewksburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912
Author: Allen KoenigsbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Federal Cylinder Project
Author: A Spiral Way
Author: Erika BradyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628467150
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound (2000) The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century opened up a new world for cultural research. Indeed, Edison's talking machine became one of the basic tools of anthropology. It not only equipped researchers with the means of preserving folk songs but it also enabled them to investigate a wide spectrum of distinct vocal expressions in the emerging fields of anthropology and folklore. Ethnographers grasped its huge potential and fanned out through regional America to record rituals, stories, word lists, and songs in isolated cultures. From the outset the federal government helped fuel the momentum to record cultures that were at risk of being lost. Through the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Smithsonian Institution took an active role in preserving native heritage. It supported projects to make phonographic documentation of American Indian language, music, and rituals before developing technologies and national expansion might futher undermine them. This study of the early phonograph's impact shows traditional ethnography being transformed, for attitudes of both ethnographers and performers were reshaped by this exciting technology. In the presence of the phonograph both fieldwork and the materials collected were revolutionized. By radically altering the old research modes, the phonograph brought the disciplines of anthropology and folklore into the modern era. At first the instrument was as strange and new to the fieldworkers as it was to their subjects. To some the first encounter with the phonograph was a deeply unsettling experience. When it was demonstrated in 1878 before members of the National Academy of Sciences, several members of the audience fainted. Even its inventor was astonished. Of his first successful test of his tinfoil phonograph, Thomas A. Edison said, "I was never taken so aback in my life." The cylinders that have survived from these times offer an unrivaled resource not only for contemporary scholarship but also for a grassroots renaissance of cultural and religious values. In tracing the historical interplay of the talking machine with field research, A Spiral Way underscores the natural adaptablity of cultural study to this new technology.
Edison
Author: Frank Lewis DyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Talking Machine West
Author: Michael A. AmundsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
America on Record
Author: Andre MillardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521835152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This study provides a history of sound recording from the acoustic phonograph to digital sound technology. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Edison Cylinder Phonographs
Author: George L. FrowPublisher: Sevenoaks : G. L. Frow
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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