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The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa, Second Edition
Evan Eisenberg
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Description for The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa, Second Edition
paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating-or reversing-these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had-and will have-on our experience of music.
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating-or reversing-these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had-and will have-on our experience of music.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300099041
SKU
9780300099041
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About Evan Eisenberg
Evan Eisenberg's writings on music, culture, and technology have appeared in The New Republic, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other periodicals. His most recent book is The Ecology of Eden.
Reviews for The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa, Second Edition
Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive. -David Hamilton, Nation
David Hamilton
Nation
A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument. -Geoffrey O'Brien
Geoffrey O'Brien A marvelous book, unlike any other. -Garry Giddins
Garry Giddins An excellent work... Eisenberg explores so much uncharted territory... Long overdue. -Michael Kimmelman, The ... Read more
David Hamilton
Nation
A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument. -Geoffrey O'Brien
Geoffrey O'Brien A marvelous book, unlike any other. -Garry Giddins
Garry Giddins An excellent work... Eisenberg explores so much uncharted territory... Long overdue. -Michael Kimmelman, The ... Read more