An International History of the Recording Industry

This comprehensive reference guide to the history of recording combines the technical history of the recording process and the industry that grew to support it, with the history of the musical, vocal, and spoken repertoire that developed in parallel with recording.The book was widely praised when it first appeared in Finnish in 1990. Now updated and revised, it is the only generic history of recording currently available in English and of immense value to all students of cultural history.