Phonographic Encounters

<p>This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective recovering the myriad sites knowledge practices identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early recording cultures. With case studies from China Australia the United States Latin America Russia Sweden Germany Spain Portugal France and Italy <i>Phonographic Encounters </i>explores moments of interaction and encounter as well as tensions between local and global understandings of recording technologies.</p><p>Drawing on an array of archival sources often previously unavailable in English it moves beyond western-centric narratives of early phonography and beyond the strict confines of the recording industry. Contributions from media history musicology popular music studies cultural studies area studies and the history of science and technology make this book a key and innovative resource for understanding early phonography against the backdrop of colonial and global power relations.</p>