SOUND RECORDING

Sound Recording

Sound Recording

Phonograph records in the South, from the beginning of recording, sold to markets wanting to hear their own kinds of music. As early as 1923, U.S. record companies sent talent scouts to comb the South for local musicians, who were recorded and sold to black and white populations in those areas and marketed to other areas of the country.

Edison was issued 1,093 U.S. patents and made major contributions to the development of several of the modern world's most important industries—telegraphy, telephony, electric light and power, recorded sound (the phonograph), motion pictures, chemical energy storage (batteries)—as well as ...