Introduction: "Fugitive Sound Waves," Fugitive Voices -- The Talking Machine: A Marvelous Inevitability -- A Magic Speaking Object: Early Patterns of Response to the Phonograph -- Collectors and the Phonograph: "Save, Save the Lore!" -- Performers and the Phonograph: The Box That Got the Flourishes -- A Spiral Way: Bringing the Voices Home
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-147) and index