Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.

Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these techno

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

The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.--Emily Thompson, Princeton University "Science"