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Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
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Journalism History
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July 1, 2008
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Wurtzler, Steven. Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media. New York: Columbia University Press. 416 pp. $26.50.
It is not impossible to imagine that every time the cell-phone commercial appears asking "Can you hear me now?" author Steven Wurtzler smiles a little. It seems to bolster his thesis that even in this digital age, much of the die was cast at the turn of the last century when inventors, engineers, and scientists developed ways to electronically record, amplify, transmit, and play back sound, and entrepreneurs founded the media empires still so much a part of our lives.
Wurtzler does not set out to inexorably tie the dawn of electronic sounds to ...