The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa / Edition 2

by Evan Eisenberg

Overview

First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating—or reversing—these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had—and will have—on our experience of music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300099041
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	06/10/2005
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Evan Eisenberg’s writings on music, culture, and technology have appeared in The New Republic, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other periodicals. His most recent book is The Ecology of Eden.

Editorial Reviews

A marvelous book, unlike any other.”—Garry Giddins

Garry Giddins

Praise for the first edition:“Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive.”—David Hamilton, The Nation



“[The Recording Angel] throws out one arresting idea after another.”—Timothy Day, author of A Century of Recorded Music



“An excellent work... Eisenberg explores so much uncharted territory... Long overdue.” —Michael Kimmelman, The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Publisher

Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive.”—David Hamilton, Nation

Nation - David Hamilton

A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument.”—Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O’Brien

“A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument.”—Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O’Brien

A work of great originality and constantly stimulating argument.”—Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien

Witty, perceptive, informed, and dazzlingly allusive.”—David Hamilton, Nation

— David Hamilton

Nation