The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa - Eisenberg, Evan (New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 2005)
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating or reversing these trends.
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); 20th Century (1901-2000); Sound recording industry; Music history