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Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context-and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning. In a narrative that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with digital music, the ubiquitous iPod, and the file-sharing wars, this is a history we have all experienced in one way or another. From the Victrola, the 78, the 45, and the 33 1/3 to the 8-track, cassette, compact disc, DAT, and MP3, the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business in the twentieth century and beyond.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Playback
• Subtitle: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money
• Author: Mark Coleman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780306813900
• ISBN: 0306813904
• ID: 04575488
• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
• Weight: 297 g
• Dimensions: 190 × 133 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. January 2005

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