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Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. By Mark Katz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [xiii, 276 p. ISBN 0520243803. $19.95.] Index, notes, compact disc.
It is a curious fact that the enormous changes in musical culture precipitated by sound recording began to attract the attention of music scholars only after many decades. This was due not simply to music scholars' focal interest in music of earlier centuries and of non-Western societies, but to a fundamental misconception of the medium. Viewed widely as a mode of representation rather than a commingling of medium and content, each affecting the other, sound recording was relegated ...