Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music

by Mark Katz

Book Overview

There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this new edition adds coverage of mashups and Auto-Tune,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520261054
• ISBN13: 9780520261051
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Insight

This book gives the reader great insight on the effects of recorded music and the effects on society. A must read for anyone into music.

A great read.

Although being a scholarly work, fully footnoted and with a complete bibliograpy this book, unlike much of academic production, is a great read. I enjoyed it immensly. It is a good companion to Michael Channan's book on the same topic."Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music". If you are interested in the history of recording or just curious about how what we listen to came to be the way it is this book will delight you.