Antique Phonograph - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antique Phonograph write by Timothy C. Fabrizio. This book was released on 1999. Antique Phonograph available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Antique phonographs enjoyed a vigorous commercial existence 100 years ago, and have come to symbolize the romance and elegance of days gone by. To present the fascinating accessories, horns, storage cabinets, advertising and ephemera which surrounded the early years of recorded sound, the authors display here over 500 color photos which illustrate nearly 700 items.
The Ancient Phonograph
The Ancient Phonograph - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Phonograph write by Shane Butler. This book was released on 2016-04-22. The Ancient Phonograph available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice—as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal arts—literature, oratory, song—and the nature of aesthetic experience.
The Phonograph
The Phonograph - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phonograph write by Robin Santos Doak. This book was released on 2006. The Phonograph available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the time that the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison first built a machine that played and recorded sound, to today's instant electronic technology, the phonograph changed along with our needs for it. This book traces the evolution of one of the most far-reaching inventions ever developed, and it eventually gave people a way to preserve bits of the past by capturing the present and passing it on to future generations. The phonograph also helped spawn industries that drive economics and influence worldwide culture.
Discovering Antique Phonographs
Discovering Antique Phonographs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discovering Antique Phonographs write by Timothy C. Fabrizio. This book was released on 2000. Discovering Antique Phonographs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Out of the authors' latest explorations, this gorgeous new book has come to life---illustrating entirely different talking machines from those in their previous books. Follow the progress of the acoustic talking machine from its crude beginnings in the 1870s to its most splendid and sophisticated heights in the early 20th century. An unparalleled archive of rare, fascinating, and previously undocumented objects has been assembled. The story behind the beautiful, bright machinery is told through clear and insightful descriptions, and many previously unpublished facts are revealed.
Music, Sound, and Technology in America
Music, Sound, and Technology in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Sound, and Technology in America write by Timothy D. Taylor. This book was released on 2012-06-19. Music, Sound, and Technology in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and mediated sound. Through readings from advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, popular fiction, correspondence, and sheet music, one gains an understanding of how early-20th-century Americans changed from music makers into consumers.
