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Playback: From the Victrola to Mp3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Da Capo Pr
Publication date January 7, 2004
Pages 268
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780306809842
ISBN-10 0306809842
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 7.50 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $25.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
A music journalist chronicles the history of playback technology, from the first wax cylinders to the advent of digital technology, revealing the role of technology in altering the music played on it, while also exploring the business people who drove the technology to market. 30,000 first printing.
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Hardcover
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from Da Capo Pr (January 7, 2004)
9780306809842 | details & prices | 268 pages | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A music journalist chronicles the history of playback technology, from the first wax cylinders to the advent of digital technology, revealing the role of technology in altering the music played on it, while also exploring the business people who drove the technology to market.
Paperback
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from Da Capo Pr (February 1, 2005)
9780306813900 | details & prices | 249 pages | 5.25 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context-and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning.

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