How Long to Read Inventing the Recording

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Recording?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Inventing the Recording by Eva Moreda Rodríguez

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the 'traveling phonographs' and salones fonográficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, small businesses that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.

How long is Inventing the Recording?

Inventing the Recording by Eva Moreda Rodríguez is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Recording Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Inventing the Recording aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing the Recording?

Inventing the Recording is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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