Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph A Century in Retrospect

The first book of its kind ever published, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph presents the candid opinions of a wide variety of musicians--from those performing when the phonograph was first used to present-day artists--about the recording process, its effects, and its validity. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews, John and Susan Harvith have constructed a detailed picture of how musicians and technicians view the ramifications of recording, a picture that reveals a dichotomy between our public perception of the recorded music as truly representative and the performers' frequent mistrust of the medium.Harvith, John is the author of 'Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph A Century in Retrospect' with ISBN 9780313253935 and ISBN 0313253935.