UK Cassell 1998   Kovakantinen 230 sivua.Alunperin julkaistu Suomessa 1990 nimellä  Äänilevyn historia.

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An international history of the recording industry / Pekka Gronow and Ilpo Saunio Translated from the Finnish by Christopher Moseley.

A comprehensive reference guide to the history of recording, this book combines the technical history of the recording process and the industry that grew up to support it, with the history of the musical, vocal and spoken repertoire that developed in parallel with recording. Starting with the simultaneous inventions of Charles Cros and Thomas Edison, the book charts the story of the phonograph from the earliest recordings by figures such as Brahms and...