Article: DIGITAL L.A. : CAN CULTURES SURVIVE IN OUR WIRED WORLD?(L.A. LIFE)

Byline: David Bloom

One hundred years ago, the dealers who sold Edison phonographs gathered to talk about how to sell more record players. Their customers were businesses, they thought, who would send the wax recording cylinders back and forth in the first-ever voice mail.

Little did those dealers realize how radically differently their machines would ultimately come to be used. Rather than compete with the typewriter, their machine transformed popular music into an international business.

And with that transformation came other unexpected transformations.

The local tenor, for instance, suddenly had to compete against recordings of the ...

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