The rise and fall of the Record industry.
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This wonderful book tells the tale of recorded sound from the very beginnmg with the creation of the phonograph by Edison in 1878.
Barfes narrative moves seamlessly through more than a century of music-industry infighting, strokes of genius, scams, triumphs and howling errors on both sides of the Atlantic.
One learns about the moves from cylinder to clisc, from 78 to 45, from mono to stereo, from single to long-play; from tape to CD, and of the problems and sucesses of recorded classical music, sometimes very different from those on the pop side.