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Sound Technology and the Music Industry [index]

See Also Communication Technology in History

 

Sound Recording Technology

Clark, Mark H.  "The Magnetic Recording Industry, 1878-1960."  PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 1992.

Gelatt, Ronald.  The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877-1977.  2nd ed.  New York: Macmillan, 1977.

Katz, Mark.  Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Kenny, William H.  Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Krishef, Robert K.  Playback: The Story of Recording Devices.  Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing, 1962.

Lydon, Michael, and Ellen Mandel.  Boogie Lightning: How Music Became Electric.  New York: Dial, 1974.

Magoun, Alexander Boyden.  "Shaping the Sound of Music: The Evolution of the Phonograph Record, 1877-1950." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 2000.

Morton, David.  Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Read, Oliver, and Walter L. Welch.  From Tin Foil to Stereo: The Evolution of the Phonograph.  Indianapolis: H.W. Swan, 1976.

Steffen, David J.  From Edison to Marconi: The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Tang, Jeffrey Donald.  “Sound Decisions: Systems, Standards, and Consumers in American Audio Technology, 1945–1975.”  PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. 

Wurtzler, Steve J.  Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 

The Music Industry and Cultural Histories of Music

Berry, Chad, ed.  The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Bertrand, Michael T.  Race, Rock, and Elvis.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Campbell, Gavin James.  Music and the Making of the New South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Chevigny, Paul.  Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City.  2 ed.  New York: Routlege, 2004.

Crawford, Richard. America’s Musical Life: A History.  New York: Norton, 2005.

Gennari, John.  Blowin’ Hot and Cold: Jazz and Its Critics.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

George, Nelson.  The Death of Rhythm and Blues.  New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Goldberg, Isaac.  Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of American Popular Music.  New York: Ungar Publishing Group, 1982.

Hall, James W.  “Conceptions of Liberty in American Broadside Ballads, 1850-1870.”  Journal of Popular Culture 2:2 (Fall 1968): 252-277.

Haralambos, Michael.  Right On: From Blues to Soul in Black America.  New York: Drake, 1975.

Hill, Trent.  "The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s."  South Atlantic Quarterly 90 (Fall 1991): 675-708.

Jasen, David A.  Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers, and their Times.  New York: Donald I. Fine, 1988.

Jones, John Bush.  The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006.

Jones, Steve, ed.  Pop Music and the Press.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Joyner, Charles. “A Region in Harmony: Southern Music and the Sound Track of Freedom.”  Journal of Southern History 72 (February 2006): 3-38.

Kanter, Kenneth Aaron.  The Jews on Tin Pan Alley: The Jewish Contribution to American Popular Music, 1830-1940.  New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1982.

Lange, Jeffrey J.  Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Levy, Lester.  Grace Notes in American History: Popular Sheet Music from 1820 to 1900.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.

Levy, Lester.  Picture the Songs: Lithographs from Sheet Music.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Lott, Eric.  Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Mitchell, Gillian A. M. "Visions of Diversity: Cultural Pluralism and the Nation in the Folk Music Revival Movement of the United States and Canada, 1958-65."  Journal of American Studies 40 (Dec. 2006): 593-14.

Mooney, Matthew. “An ‘Invasion of Vulgarity’: American Popular Music and Modernity in Print Media Discourse, 1900­1925.” Americana 3 (Spring 2004)

Mooney, Matthew J. “‘All join in the chorus’: Sheet Music, Vaudeville, and the Formation of American Cinema, 1904–1914.”  PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2006.

Neal, Mark Anthony.  What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

Newbury, Michael. “Polite Gaity: Cultural Hierarchy and Musical Comedy, 1893-1904.”  Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4:4 (October 2005): 381-407.

Pecknold, Diane. The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Picardie, Justine, and Dorothy Wade.  Atlantic and the Godfathers of Rock and Roll.  London: Fourth Estate, 1993.

Powers, Devon.  “The ‘Folk Problem’:  The Village Voice Takes on Folk Music, 1955-65.”  Journalism History 33:4 (Winter 2008): 194-204.  

Rasmussen, Christopher.  “Lonely Sounds: Popular Recorded Music and American Society, 1949–1979.”  PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008.

Rodnitzky, Jerome L.  “The Evolution of the American Protest Song.”  Journal of Popular Culture 3:1 (Summer 1969): 35-45.

Rhodes, Lisa L.  Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Ruhlmann, William.  Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits.  New York: Routledge, 2004.

Scheurer, Timothy E.  Born in the USA: The Myth of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Schurk, William L. “Before the Beatles: International Influences on American Popular Recordings, 1940-63.”  Popular Music and Society 30 (May 2007): 227-266.

Smith, Chris.  100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide.  Westport: Greenwood, 2007.

Smith, Susan E.  Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Smith, Wes.  The Pied Pipers of Rock and Roll: Radio DeeJays of the 50s and 60s.  Marietta, Ga.: Longstreet, 1989.

Stowe, David W.  How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Suisman, David.  "Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African-American Music."  Journal of American History 90:4 (March 2004): 1295-1324.

Tawa, Nicholas E.  The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910.  New York: Schirmer, 1990.

Toll, Robert C.  Blacking Up:  The Minstrel Show in 19th Century America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Townsend, Peter.  Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Weburn, Ron.  “Jazz Magazines of the 1930s: An Overview of Their Provocative Journalism.”  American Music 5:3 (Autumn 1987): 255-270.

Weinstein, Elizabeth.  “Married to Rock and Roll: Jane Scott, Mother of Rock Journalism.”  Journalism History 32:3 (Fall 2006): 147-155.