Setting the Record Straight : A Material History of Classical Recording

List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi 1. Playing by the Book: Toward a Textual Theory of the Phonograph 1(32) 2. Disconcerting Music: Performers and Composers on the Record 33(27) 3. The Best Seat in the House: The Domestication of the Concert Hall 60(28) 4. Creating the Right Impression: An Iconography of Record Covers 88(36) 5. Off the Record: Some Notes on the Sleeve 124(28) 6. Just for the Record: The Narrative Architecture of Gramophone Magazines 152(30) 7. Compact Discourse: The Review of the Gramophone 182(30) 8. Keeping Records in Their Place: Collections, Catalogs, Libraries, and Societies 212(33) 9. Coda: The End of the Record 245(10) Notes 255(20) Bibliography 275(26) Index 301