[ecrea] new book: Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Duke University Press).

Please note the publication of Music, Sound, and
Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, 
Cinema, and Radio (Duke University Press).

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.

About The Author(s)
Timothy D. Taylor is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the 
University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sounds of 
Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture and Beyond 
Exoticism: Western Music and the World, which is also published by Duke 
University Press.

Mark Katz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How 
Technology Has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of 
the Hip-Hop DJ.

Tony Grajeda is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the 
Department of English at the University of Central Florida. He is an 
editor of Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound.

"Filled with great selections, Music, Sound, and Technology in America 
is a salutary addition to a media studies literature lacking in such 
sourcebooks. It provides a ready-made trove of primary source material 
to use in classroom discussions of historical interpretation and 
methodology. In addition, by juxtaposing materials on diverse aspects of 
sound, the editors avoid the persistent habit of segmenting sound 
studies by medium or mode."-Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3: The Meaning 
of a Format

For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke 
University Press, please visit 
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16056.

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