The Compleat Talking Machine
Title | The Compleat Talking Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Reiss |
Publisher | Chandler, Ariz. : Sonoran Pub. |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | House & Home |
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Talking Machine West
Title | Talking Machine West PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Amundson |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2017-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806157771 |
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
The Talking Machine
Title | The Talking Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy C. Fabrizio |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
An incredible variety of antique record players is documented, including those with external-horns as well as internal-horn devices, collectively known as "talking machines." The authoritative text and up-to-date value guide complement hundreds of photos to provide in this one volume a veritable library on the subject.
Listen Up!
Title | Listen Up! PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Kulling |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2007-08-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0375831150 |
IT'S 1876 AND THE whole country is celebrating the 100th birthday of the United States. The biggest party is in Philadelphia at the World's Fair, where the latest and greatest inventions are on display for all to see. Alexander Graham Bell is headed to the fair to demonstrate his invention - a talking machine he calls the telephone. But will anyone come to see him at the world's most important science fair? And more importantly, will his machine work? This Step 3 reader celebrates the resilient, quirky spirit of inventors.
The Compleat Talking Machine
Title | The Compleat Talking Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Eric L. Reiss |
Publisher | Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780911572544 |
The Talking Machine
Title | The Talking Machine PDF eBook |
Author | James N. Weber |
Publisher | Midland, Ont. : Adio, Incorporated |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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"Covers 30 years of history of the Berliner Gramophone and Victor talking machines and Victrolas, showing how they changed music, home life and social life between 1896 and 1929"--Back cover.
The Talking Machine Industry
Title | The Talking Machine Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Ogilvie Mitchell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Phonograph |
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