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: Spain.
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: Spain.
Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Glasgow. A specialist in the political and cultural history of music in modern Spain, she is the author of Music and Exile in Francoist Spain (Ashgate, 2015), Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain (Oxford University Press, 2016), and numerous articles and book chapters. In 2018-19 she held a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and her work has also received funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust.
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1: Imagining the phonograph, 1877-1888 * Chapter 2: Travelling phonographs, 1888-1900 * Chapter 3: Inventing the recording: gabinetes fonográficos and early commercial phonography in Madrid, 1896-1905 * Chapter 4: Science, urban space and early phonography in Barcelona, 1898-1914 * Chapter 5: Gabinetes fonográficos in Valencia, 1899-1901 * Chapter 6: (Dis)embodied voices: recording singers, 1896-1914 * Chapter 7: Consuming and collecting records in Spain, 1896-1905 * Conclusion * Table 1 * Table 2 * Table 3 * Table 4 * Bibliography
