The Recording Angel
Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Published:10th Jun '05
Should be back in stock very soon
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. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had—and will have—on our experience of music.
Praise for the first edition:“Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive.”—David Hamilton, The Nation
“[The Recording Angel] throws out one arresting idea after another.”—Timothy Day, author of A Century of Recorded Music
“An excellent work... Eisenberg explores so much uncharted territory... Long overdue.” —Michael Kimmelman, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A marvelous book, unlike any other.”—Garry Giddins
-- Garry Giddins“A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument.”—Geoffrey O’Brien
-- Geoffrey O’Brien“Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive.”—David Hamilton, Nation
ISBN: 9780300099041
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 249g
256 pages
2nd Revised edition