Edison's Phonograph vs. the Gramophone
In this episode, host Nate Wilcox and author Peter Doggett explore the advent of recorded music, the technological circumstances surrounding the proliferation of music in the 19th century, and how musicians were permanently affected by it.
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Show Notes
In this episode, Peter explains how he came to take on such an ambitious project, why he started with the advent of recorded music rather than the advent of sheet music, the first format wars between Thomas Edison’s phonograph and Emile Berliner’s gramophone, the first recorded music superstars, and one unfortunate early hitmaker who found himself having to do a new recording every time a copy of his hit record was made.
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