Eva Moreda Rodr?guez

Inventing the Recording (eBook, ePUB)

The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Rodr?guez 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 fonogr?ficos 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 fonogr?ficos, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197552087
• Artikelnr.: 61848735

Autorenporträt

Eva Moreda Rodr?guez 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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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