Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914

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Eva Moreda Rodríguez (Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Glasgow)

Inventing the Recording

The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914

Eva Moreda Rodríguez (Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Glasgow)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
14 October 2021

Theory of music & musicology; Music industry; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the 'traveling phonographs' and salones fonográficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, small businesses that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.

By: Eva Moreda Rodríguez (Senior Lecturer in Musicology Senior Lecturer in Musicology University of Glasgow)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197552063
ISBN 10: 0197552064
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 14 October 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Glasgow. A specialist in the political and cultural history of music in modern Spain, she is the author of Music and Exile in Francoist Spain (Ashgate, 2015), Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain (Oxford University Press, 2016), and numerous articles and book chapters. In 2018-19 she held a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and her work has also received funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Reviews for Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914

Eva Moreda Rodriguez reveals the multiple journeys, life stories and identities of the phonograph in Spain with discernment and dazzling erudition. This elegant and energetic book will durably fascinate and inspire scholars of early recorded sound. -- Elodie A. Roy, author of Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove This rich, exhaustive and compelling exploration of the rise of early phonography in Spain offers an innovative and much needed perspective on the social and cultural debates that divided Spanish society at the turn of the twentieth century. Inventing the Recording represents a pioneering contribution to the study of sound cultures in Spain and an essential reading for anyone interested in the history of sound technologies. -- Samuel Llano, University of Manchester, author of Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930

Winner of Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics category, 2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research.