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Shaping the sound of music: The evol...

Magoun, Alexander Boyden.

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Shaping the sound of music: The evolution of the phonograph record, 1877--1950.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Shaping the sound of music: The evolution of the phonograph record, 1877--1950./
作者:	Magoun, Alexander Boyden.
面頁冊數:	580 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4306.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3035868
ISBN:	9780493489957

Shaping the sound of music: The evolution of the phonograph record, 1877--1950.
Magoun, Alexander Boyden.

Shaping the sound of music: The evolution of the phonograph record, 1877--1950. - 580 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4306.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2000.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Why do people try to improve things? The question is fundamental to the study of technology. This thesis uses the phonograph record to demonstrate the constructed nature of the human behaviors shaping the development of artifacts. It shows that within a market environment, itself constructed by participants, individuals acting alone and collectively developed different definitions of "better." Inventors sought technical solutions, entrepreneurs sought profits, and consumers sought ways to use their leisure time. Numerous factors affected their efforts in ways that defy modeling. Despite the conflicts between definitions and the contingency of the process, the study suggests that participants improved the sound of the record.

ISBN: 9780493489957Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Shaping the sound of music: The evolution of the phonograph record, 1877--1950.
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520 $a This study traces the construction of the technology, its markets, and certain consumer tastes, from invention to the acceptance of the longplaying record (LP) by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The process involved incremental as well as revolutionary change based on a presumptive anomaly, none of which was determined by purely technological, commercial, or consumer considerations.
520 $a The narrative begins with the constructed novelty of Thomas Edison's tin foil cylinder. Alexander Bell's group innovated a wax cylinder for stenography; when consumers rejected it, producers adapted the record for entertainment. Simultaneously, Emile Berliner invented a disc intended to revolutionize mass production. Eldridge Johnson formed the Victor Talking Machine Company to establish the 78-rpm disc as the dominant format into the 1950s.
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