# Playback

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- Book: [Playback](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-coleman/playback) ([Playback.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-coleman/playback.md))
- Authors: [Mark Coleman](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-coleman)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-390-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2005-02-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its larger social, economic, and cultural context-and includes appearances by everyone from Thomas Edison to Enrico Caruso to Dick Clark to Grandmaster Flash to Napster CEO Shawn Fanning. In a narrative that begins with Edison's cylinder and ends with digital music, the ubiquitous iPod, and the file-sharing wars, this is a history we have all experienced in one way or another. From the Victrola, the 78, the 45, and the 33 1/3 to the 8-track, cassette, compact disc, DAT, and MP3, the story of Playback is also the story of music, and the music business in the twentieth century and beyond.