Edison, musicians, and the phonograph : a century in retrospect
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Edison, musicians, and the phonograph : a century in retrospect
（Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 11）
Greenwood Press, 1987
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Interviews with recording artists
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Though the book ranks as an admirable exercise in rigorous scholarship, the prevailing tone is that of an informal conversation. That's what keeps you turning the pages. Serious record collectors will find that this book . . . will make them see--and hear--their disks in a wholly new perspective. The New York Times
The first book of its kind ever published, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph presents the candid opinions of a wide variety of musicians--from those performing when the phonograph was first used to present-day artists--about the recording process, its effects, and its validity. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews, John and Susan Harvith have constructed a detailed picture of how musicians and technicians view the ramifications of recording, a picture that reveals a dichotomy between our public perception of the recorded music as truly representative and the performers' frequent mistrust of the medium.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Ernest L. Stevens Theodore M. Edison Anna Case Samuel Gardner Irving Kaufman Donald Voorhees Arcadie Birkenholz Lotte Lehmann Rosa Ponselle Arthur Judson Alexander Kipnis Abram Chasins Ina Souez Louis Kaufman Jan Peerce Eugene Ormandy Aaron Copland Benny Goodman Leon Barzin Jindrich Rohan Janos Starker Phyllis Curtin Nikolaus Harnoncourt Frans Bruggen AndRE Previn Vladimir Ashkenazy Martin Arroyo Bernard Haitink Alicia de Larrocha Guarneri Quartet William P. Malm Michael Colgrass William Bolcom and Joan Morris Jane Jarvis Ray Moore John Pfeiffer Thomas Frost Leroy E. (Sam) Parkins Gunther Schuller Miha Pogacnik B. H. Haggin Index
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