Introduction: Recorded Music and Collective Memory; 1 Two "Circles of Resonance": Audience Uses of Recorded Music; 2 "The Coney Island Crowd": The Phonograph and Popular Recordings before World War I; 3 "His Master's Voice": The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph; 4 The Phonograph and the Evolution of "Foreign" and "Ethnic" Records; 5 The Gendered Phonograph: Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930; 6 African American Blues and the Phonograph: From Race Records to Rhythm and Blues
Summary
Kenney examines the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound: from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry became more complex and less powerful
