From Edison to Marconi

From Edison to Marconi\nAcknowledgments\nContents\nPreface\nIntroduction\n1. The Ancients and the Jukebox Phenomenon\n2. Inventing the Music Industry\n3. Edison’s Invention\n4. Cylinders, Discs, and Vision\n5. A Consumer Business or a Business Technology?\n6. “A&R”\n7. Speaking of Money, and the Jukebox\n8. Toward Mass Production\n9. Recording and Recordings\n10. Sound, Quality, and Topicality\n11. A Popular Product and a Consumer Market\n12. A&R in the Early Years — Styles and Genres\n13. Of Places, Performers, and Songs\n14. Type, Style, Genre, Tempo\n15. Most of the Music\n16. Immigration and Recordings\n17. Culture Swing — The Ethnic Recordings\n18. Images, Music, and the Inevitable Transition\n19. The Caruso Effect\n20. Enter Marconi\nAppendix 1\nAppendix 2\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex