ABSTRACT
This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early recording cultures. With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, Phonographic Encounters explores moments of interaction and encounter, as well as tensions, between local and global understandings of recording technologies.
Drawing on an array of archival sources often previously unavailable in English, it moves beyond western-centric narratives of early phonography and beyond the strict confines of the recording industry. Contributions from media history, musicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, area studies and the history of science and technology make this book a key and innovative resource for understanding early phonography against the backdrop of colonial and global power relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Negotiating geographical and cultural boundaries
chapter 2|20 pages
Global transfer, local realities
part II|57 pages
Repertoires, auditory practices and the shaping of new listening identities
chapter 4|19 pages
Portugal and mechanical music in the early phonographic era
chapter 5|17 pages
Discòfils
chapter 6|19 pages
Mediatization of music, musicalization of everyday life
part III|63 pages
Phonography as ideology
chapter 7|21 pages
Recording music, making business
chapter 8|17 pages
‘Phonographic awareness’
part IV|65 pages
The social geographies of record-shopping