Thesis

Traveling in Wide Grooves and Transmitting Frequencies: A History of Sound Technology, Business, and Culture during the Acoustic and Electrical Eras of Recording

Abstract

Acknnowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1–The Inventors

Chapter 2–A Shift in Culture and Technology: The 1890s

1890s Listening Portal

Chapter 3—“All this machinery making modern music, can still be open-hearted”: 1900-1919

1900-1919 Listening Portal

Chapter 4—“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” – The 1920s and 1930s

1920s Listening Portal

1930s Listening Portal: Sounds of the Great Depression

Old Time Radio

Conclusion

1940s Listening Portal

Bibliography