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This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the technologies were thoroughly integrated into everyday life. There are more than 120 selections between the collection's first piece, an article on the phonograph written by Thomas Edison in 1878, and its last, a column advising listeners "desirous of gaining more from music as presented by the radio." Among the selections are articles from popular and trade publications, advertisements, fan letters, corporate records, fiction, and sheet music. Taken together, the selections capture how the new sound technologies were shaped by developments such as urbanization, the increasing value placed on leisure time, and the rise of the advertising industry. Most importantly, they depict the ways that the new sound technologies were received by real people in particular places and moments in time.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	19 juin 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822393917
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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M U S I C, S O U N D, AND TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA

MUSIC, SOUND, AND TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA

A Documentary History of

Early Phonograph, Cinema,

and Radio

Edited byTaylor,Timothy D. Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda

Duke University Press Durham and London 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data and republication acknowledgments appear on the last printed page of this book.

Like water, like gas, like the electrical current coming

from afar into our homes responding to our needs in

return for almost no effort, so we will be supplied with

visual or audible images, appearing and disappearing

with the least gesture, almost a sign, only to leave us

again the same way as they came.

—Paul Valéry,“La Conquête de l’ubiquité,”

inPièces sur l’art, 1928–1934

Contents

General Introduction: Music echnologies • in Everyday Lifeimothy D. aylor1

Part I. Sound Recording

• IntroductionMark KatZ11 Sound Recording: Readings29

Predictions 1. Homas A. Edison, “He Phonograph and Its Future” (1878)29 2. “He Phonograph,”New York Times(7 November 1877)37 3. Philip G. ubert Jr., “What the Phonograph Will Do for Music and Music-Lovers” (May 1893)39

The Listener and the Phonograph

Learning to Listen 4. Edison Realism est, Broadside (c. 1916)44 5. “Illustrated Song Machine,”Talking Machine World(October 1905); “Illustrated Song Machine,”Talking Machine World(November 1905)45 6. Orlo Williams, “imes and Seasons,”Gramophone(June 1923)45

He Phonograph in Everyday Life 7.How We Gave a Phonograph Party(1899)48 8. Jas. O’Dea, Arthur Gillespie, and erbert Dillea, “Susan, Dear Sue (He Phonograph Song)” (1901)52

9. Pauline Partridge, “He ome Set to Music” (November 1924)53 10. Homas A. Edison, Inc., questionnaire and responses (1921)56

He Phonograph and Music Appreciation 11. Annie Pike Greenwood, “He Victor in the Rural School” (26 February 1914)65 12. “OrganiZe a Music Memory Contest,”Talking Machine Journal (March 1919)67

Men, Women, and Phonographs 13. Victrola advertisement,Collier’s(4 October 1913)70 14. Aeolian-Vocalion advertisement,Vanity Fair(May 1916)70 15. Gladys L. Kimmel, “aving Dierent ypes of Women Customers” (June 1920)71 16. Scrutator, “Where Are the Ladies?” (June 1925)75 17. .A.F., “Ladies and Gramophone” (August 1925)75 18. Gladys M. Collin, “Women and the Gramophone” (October 1925)76 19. Dorothy B. Fisher, “Women and the Phonograph” (October 1926)77

Music and the Great War 20. “alking Machines Are ‘Essentials’” (December 1917)78 21. Vivian Burnett, “When I ear Hat Phonograph Play” (1918)80 22. “Phonographs on the Firing Line” (19 October 1919)81

Performers and the Phonograph

In the Recording Studio 23. “ow alking Machine Orchestras Operate” (September 1910)84 24. Yvonne de reville, “Making a Phonograph Record” (November 1916)85 25. Baby Dodds,e Baby Dodds Story(1992)88 26. Edwin McArthur, “Conducting for Record” (March 1941)92

He Phonograph and Music Pedagogy 27. “He Eect of Mechanical Instruments upon Musical Education” (July 1916)94 28. Oscar Saenger,e Oscar Saenger Course in Vocal Training(1916)103

The Phonograph and the Composer

He Composer in the Machine Age 29. enry Cowell, “Music of and for the Records” (March–April 1931)104 30. Igor Stravinsky,An Autobiography(1936)107

He Phonograph as a Compositional Tool 31. Carol-Bérard, “Recorded Noisesomorrow’s Instrumentation” (January–February 1929)110 32. Igor Stravinsky, “Meine Stellung Zur Schallplatte” (March 1930)113

Phonograph Debates

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Pro

33. John Philip Sousa, “He Menace of Mechanical Music” (1906)113 34. Portland (Oregon) City Council, “An Ordinance Regulating the Use of Phonographs” (14 August 1907);Minutes of the Portland City Council (27 November 1907)122 35. Joseph N. Weber, “Canned MusicIs It aking the Romance from Our Lives?” (November 1930)123

36. Paul . Cromelin, “‘He Menace of Mechanical Music’” (1906)126 37. Anne Shaw Faulkner, “Phonographs and Player Instruments” (August 1917)129

Part II. Cinema

• Introductionony Grajeda137 Cinema: Readings145

Technologies of Sight and Sound 38. “He Kineto-Phonograph” (16 June 1894)145 39. “He Perfection of the Phono-Cinematograph” (14 September 1907)148 40. Advertisement for Picturephone, “Singing and alking Moving Pictures” (11 January 1908)149 41. “He Singing and alking PictureWhat Is Its Future?” (7 May 1910)149 42. “alking ‘Movies’” (8 March 1913)152

Sounds of the Cinema: Illustrated Song Slides; The Role of the Voice (lecturers, actors); Incidental Musics, Special Effects, Ballyhoo, and Noise of the Audience 43. Chas. K. arris, “Illustrating Song Slides” (9 March 1907)153 44. Chas. K. arris, “Song Slide Review” (16 March 1907)156 45. . F. oman, “He Singer and the Song” (4 June 1910)158 46. Van C. Lee, “He Value of a Lecture” (8 February 1908)161

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