In his new book, Playback: From the Victrola to Mp3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money (DaCapo Press), rock critic and author Mark Coleman provides the staggering history of popular music technology. He covers everything from the birth of the LP record to the technological impact of disco on the music business, to the latest issues in digital music, placing the history of sound reproduction within its larger social and cultural context.
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