From Phonographs to Spotify: A Brief History of the Music Industry

From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming services today, the music industry has had to ...
Time

Music: Phonograph Boom

Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest ...
The Village Voice

Q&A: Michael Cumella Talks Old Records And His “Antique Phonograph Music Program”

As even Brad Paisley has pointed out, we live today in something like the future. The past few years of continuously shrinking computers and continuously growing cities seem to suggest that he might ...
insider.si.edu

Music, sound, and technology in America : a documentary history of early phonograph, cinema, and radio / edited by Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda

This anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, talking pictures, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Colorful, Scandalous, True History of the Machine That Created American Pop

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.