Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914 eBook

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Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the ‘traveling phonographs’ and salones fonográficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, small businesses that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.

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9780197552070

Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914 is written by Eva Moreda Rodríguez and published by Oxford University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Inventing the Recording are 9780197552087, 0197552080 and the print ISBNs are 9780197552063, 0197552064. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780197552070.