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| General Introduction: Music Technologies in Everyday Life | |
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| Sound Recording | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sound Recording: Readings | |
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| Predictions | |
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| Thomas A. Edison, "The Phonograph and Its Future" (1878) | |
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| "The Phonograph," New York Times (7 November 1877) | |
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| Philip G. Hubert Jr., "What the Phonograph Will Do for Music and Music-Lovers" (May 1893) | |
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| The Listener and the Phonograph | |
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| Learning to Listen | |
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| Edison Realism Test, Broadside (c. 1916) | |
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| "Illustrated Song Machine," Talking Machine World (October 1905); "Illustrated Song Machine," Talking Machine World (November 1905) | |
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| Orlo Williams, "Times and Seasons," Gramophone (June 1923) | |
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| The Phonograph in Everyday Life | |
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| How We Gave a Phonograph Party (1899) | |
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| Jas. O'Dea, Arthur Gillespie, and Herbert Dillea, "Susan, Dear Sue (The Phonograph Song)" (1901) | |
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| Pauline Partridge, "The Home Set to Music" (November 1924) | |
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| Thomas A. Edison, Inc., questionnaire and responses (1921) | |
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| The Phonograph and Music Appreciation | |
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| Annie Pike Greenwood, "The Victor in the Rural School" (26 February 1914) | |
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| "Organize a Music Memory Contest," Talking Machine Journal (March 1919) | |
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| Men, Women, and Phonographs | |
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| Victrola advertisement, Collier's (4 October 1913) | |
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| Aeolian-Vocation advertisement, Vanity Fair (May 1916) | |
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| Gladys L. Kimmel, "Having Different Types of Women Customers" (June 1920) | |
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| Scrutator, "Where Are the Ladies?" (June 1925) | |
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| T.A.F., "Ladies and Gramophone" (August 1925) | |
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| Gladys M. Collin, "Women and the Gramophone" (October 1925) | |
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| Dorothy B. Fisher, "Women and the Phonograph" (October 1926) | |
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| Music and the Great War | |
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| "Talking Machines Are 'Essentials'" (December 1917) | |
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| Vivian Burnett, "When I Hear That Phonograph Play" (1918) | |
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| "Phonographs on the Firing Line" (19 October 1919) | |
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| Performers and the Phonograph | |
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| In the Recording Studio | |
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| "How Talking Machine Orchestras Operate" (September 1910) | |
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| Yvonne de Treville, "Making a Phonograph Record" (November 1916) | |
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| Baby Dodds, The Baby Dodds Story (1992) | |
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| Edwin McArthur, "Conducting for Record" (March 1941) | |
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| The Phonograph and Music Pedagogy | |
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| "The Effect of Mechanical Instruments upon Musical Education" (July 1916) | |
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| Oscar Saenger, The Oscar Saenger Course in Vocal Training (1916) | |
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| The Phonograph and the Composer | |
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| The Composer in the Machine Age | |
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| Henry Cowell, "Music of and for the Records" (March-April 1931) | |
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| Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography (1936) | |
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| The Phonograph as a Compositional Tool | |
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| Carol-B�rard, "Recorded Noises-Tomorrow's Instrumentation" (January-February 1929) | |
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| Igor Stravinsky, "Meine Stellung zur Schallplatte" (March 1930) | |
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| Phonograph Debates | |
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| Con | |
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| John Philip Sousa, "The Menace of Mechanical Music" (1906) | |
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| Portland (Oregon) City Council, "An Ordinance Regulating the Use of Phonographs" (14 August 1907); Minutes of the Portland City Council (27 November 1907) | |
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| Joseph N. Weber, "Canned Music-Is It Taking the Romance from Our Lives?" (November 1930) | |
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| Pro | |
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| Paul H. Cromelin, "'The Menace of Mechanical Music'" (1906) | |
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| Anne Shaw Faulkner, "Phonographs and Player Instruments" (August 1917) | |
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| Cinema | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cinema: Readings | |
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| Technologies of Sight and Sound | |
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| "The Kineto-Phonograph" (16 June 1894) | |
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| "The Perfection of the Phono-Cinematograph" (14 September 1907) | |
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| Advertisement for Picturephone, "Singing and Talking Moving Pictures" (11 January 1908) | |
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| "The Singing and Talking Picture-What Is Its Future?" (7 May 1910) | |
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| "Talking 'Movies'" (8 March 1913) | |
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| Sounds of the Cinema: Illustrated Song Slides; The Role of the Voice (lecturers, actors); Incidental Musics, Special Effects, Ballyhoo, and Noise of the Audience | |
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| Chas. K. Harris, "Illustrating Song Slides" (9 March 1907) | |
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| Chas. K. Harris, "Song Slide Review" (16 March 1907) | |
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| H. F. Hoffman, "The Singer and the Song" (4 June 1910) | |
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| Van C. Lee, "The Value of a Lecture" (8 February 1908) | |
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| E. Esther Owen and W. M. Rhoads, "The Value of a Lecture with the Show" (22 February 1908) | |
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| Sydney Wire, "How Talking Pictures Are Made; Scarcity of Picture Actors" (22 August 1908) | |
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| W. Stephen Bush, "The Human Voice as a Factor in the Moving Picture Show" (23 January 1909) | |
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| James Clancy, "The Human Voice as a Factor in the Moving Picture Show" (30 January 1909) | |
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| "Trade Notes," "When 'Music' Is a Nuisance" (28 December 1907) | |
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| "Sound Effects: Good, Bad, and Indifferent" (2 October 1909) | |
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| Playing to the Pictures | |
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| Performative Accompaniment | |
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| Clarence E. Sinn, "Music for the Picture" (23 April 1910) | |
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| Louis Reeves Harrison, "Jackass Music" (21 January 1911) | |
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| Wm. H. McCracken, "'Jackass Music'" (28 January 1911) | |
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| Mrs. Buttery, "'Jackass Music"' (4 February 1911) | |
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| W. Stephen Bush, "Music and Sound Effects for Dante's Inferno" (27 January 1912) | |
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| L. Szeminanyi, "Playing to Pictures" (February 1921) | |
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| "A Cinema Musician," "Atmosphere" (March 1926) | |
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| The Organist of the Picture Palace | |
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| Ernest M. Skinner, "Cinema Music" (August 1918) | |
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| J. van Cleft Cooper, "Creation of Atmosphere" (June 1922) | |
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| Conducting and Scoring to the Movies | |
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| "How Music Is Made to Fit the Films" (26 January 1918) | |
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| Doron K. Antrim, "Possibilities of Movie Music-Present and Future" (15 February 1926) | |
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| Victor Wagner, "Scoring a Motion Picture" (September 1926) | |
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| Josephine Vila, "Hugo Riesenfeld Tells How He Scores a Film" (17 February 1927) | |
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| Taste, Culture, and Educating the Public | |
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| Frank A. Edson, "A Word about Suitable and Unsuitable Music in Moving Picture Productions" (March 1918) | |
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| "Choosing Picture Music That Pleases the Patrons: An Interview with Edward L. Hyman" (1 February 1926) | |
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| Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, "Why Music Is Becoming the Important Element in Picture Presentation" (15 March 1926) | |
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| Josephine Vila, "Opera Singer Gets Thrill out of Screen Debut" (20 January 1927) | |
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| L. K. Sidney, "What Modern Music Has Done to the Motion Picture Theaters" (January 1928) | |
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| Responding to the Talkies | |
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| An Interview with Joseph N. Weber, "Will Machine-Made Music Displace Real Music in Our Theaters?" (September 1928) | |
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| Warren Nolan, "Talking Pictures and the Public" (1929) | |
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| "What the Fans Think": "Talkie Gets a Guffaw" (March 1929); "Voice Censor Suggested" (March 1929); "Another Fan Deserts!" (April 1929); "Real Singers Would Go Over" (February 1932); "Carrying English to England" (February 1932); "Adores Yankee Talk" (November 1932); "Our Rural Accents" (November 1932) | |
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| Radio | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Radio: Readings | |
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| Radio as Dream, Radio as Technology | |
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| "Distributing Music over Telephone Lines" (18 December 1909) | |
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| "Radio Telephone Experiments" (May 1910) | |
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| David Sarnoff, "Radio Music Box" (c. 1916-1920) | |
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| Bruce Bliven, "The Ether Will Now Oblige" (15 February 1922) | |
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| Joseph Riley, "Five Minutes of Radio for a Nickel" (April 1926) | |
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| Early Broadcasts: Performer and Listener Impressions | |
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| Leon Lichtenfeld, interview | |
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| Leon Alfred Duthernoy, "Singing to Tens of Thousands; Impressions of an Artist during His First Radio Concert" (November 1922) | |
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| Helen Keller, letter to the Symphony Society of New York (10 February 1924) | |
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| George McClelland, memorandum for Mr. J. A. Holman (March 1924) | |
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| Radio in Everyday Life | |
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| "Wireless Music and News for the Roller Chair Passenger" (7 August 1920) | |
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| "Very Latest in Wireless; Union College Students Find a 'Universal Lullaby' for Babies" (11 May 1921) | |
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| "Radio Now Heard on Buses in New York City" (27 May 1922) | |
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| "Advance Seat Sale for Radio Concerts" (October 1923) | |
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| Bess B. Harris, letter to the editor (April 1924) | |
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| '"Sing Down the Cattle' by Radio" (October 1926) | |
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| "Wedding Has Radio Music" (1 January 1927) | |
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| Healing | |
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| "Maimed and Sick Forget Pain in Model Radio-Equipped Ambulance" (3 June 1922) | |
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| Ward Seeley, "Radio Relief for the Ailing" (August 1922) | |
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| "Jazzing the Deaf by Radio" (March 1926) | |
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| Economics of Radio Broadcasting | |
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| Laurence Blackhurst, "Radio Music Fund Committee Appeals to Listeners-In for Contributions" (1 March 1924) | |
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| "How Much Should Good Radio Program Cost?" (January 1930) | |
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| Advertising | |
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| "Radio Broadcast Advertisements; Airphone Advertising Will Kill Fan Interest" (24 June 1922) | |
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| Davey Tree Hour (5 January 1930) | |
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| J. Walter Thompson Company, staff meeting minutes (14 January 1930) | |
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| Martin L. Davey, letter to E. P. H. James (1 September 1931) | |
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| Martin L. Davey, "Secrets of a Successful Radio Program" (1 July 1932) | |
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| Justine Magee, undated fan letter to Martin L. Davey (c. 1930-32) | |
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| Music on the Radio | |
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| Con | |
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| A. J. M. "Radio Just Another Blight" (31 December 1925) | |
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| Paul Kempf, "Thomas A. Edison Sees a Menace for Music in the Radio" (January 1927) | |
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| Pro | |
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| John C. Freund, excerpts from an address broadcast from WJZ (May 1922) | |
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| Lee de Forest, "Opera Audiences of Tomorrow" (5 August 1922) | |
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| "Programs Lauded by Bandmasters" (12 September 1926) | |
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| What Do Listeners Want? | |
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| E. F. McDonald Jr., "What We Think the Public Wants" (March 1924) | |
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| Crooning | |
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| Floyd Gibbons School of Broadcasting, "How to Train a Singing Voice for Broadcasting" (1932) | |
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| Martha Gellhorn, "Rudy Vall�e: God's Gift to Us Girls" (7 August 1929) | |
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| "Cardinal Denounces Crooners as Whiners Defiling the Air" (11 January 1932) | |
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| Whitney Bolton, "Mr. Bolton Queries 'When Was a Crooner a Man in Love?'" (12 January 1932) | |
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| "Crooners Cover Up; Pass Well Known Buck" (13 January 1932) | |
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| "Crooning Comes by Nature" (24 February 1932) | |
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| Radio behind the Scenes | |
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| Getting on the Air | |
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| James H. Collins, "How to Get on a Radio Program" (February 1925) | |
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| Audition form, National Broadcasting Company (c. 1930) | |
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| Olive Palmer, "Requirements of the Radio Singer" (December 1931) | |
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| Myda Adams, letter to John Royal (11 January 1932) | |
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| "Have You a Radio Voice?" (28 January 1932) | |
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| Talent | |
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| Harvey B. Gaul, "The Vicissitudes of a Radio Impresario" (September 1922) | |
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| Production behind the Scenes | |
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| Gustav Klemm, "Putting a Program on the Air" (March 1933) | |
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| Herbert Devins, "A Glimpse 'behind the Mike' during the Palmolive Hour" (December 1929) | |
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| Composing for the Radio | |
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| Viva Liebling, "Creating Scores for Radio" (20 January 1944) | |
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| Rose Heylbut, "The Background of Background Music" (September 1945) | |
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| How to Listen to Music on the Radio | |
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| Peter W. Dykema, "Music as Presented by the Radio" (1935) | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |