In this fascinating history of the portable radio, Michael Schiffer shows how this invention is as American as apple pie. Along the way, he tells how technology
Record Cultures tells the story of how early U.S. commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media histo
The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sou
A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music critic From the age of song sheets in the late ninet