The ‘talking machine’ comes to the Dutch East Indies: The arrival of Western media technology in Southeast Asia
The invention of sound recording technology in the nineteenth century was a modern miracle. Making possible the storage and preservation of sounds across time and distance, which previously could only be dreamed of, this invention contributed significantly to the developing entertainment world. Thomas Alva Edison first realized this dream in 1877 when he invented the tin-foil phonograph, which then inspired other scientists to perfect and develop his invention. During the last two decades of the 1800s sound recording machines were exhibited outside the United States of America, first in Europe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia ; volume 162, issue 2, page 269-305 ; ISSN 0006-2294 2213-4379 |
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Brill
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Schlagwörter: | Linguistics and Language / Social Sciences (miscellaneous) / Anthropology / Language and Linguistics / Cultural Studies |
Sprache: | unknown |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003668 |