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The advent of the gramophone transformed the cultural conditions of contemporary music, including the way it was taught.
Chapter 8 deals with the ways in which recordings are hoarded, organised and presented in collections, catalogues, libraries and gramophone and record societies.
But it is just this body that the gramophone eliminates, thereby giving every female voice a sound that is needy and incomplete.
There were not yet that many gramophone owners who could have bought them, and it is possible that they were mainly used for demonstration purposes.
By contrast, among urban men with higher education, over 90% had electricity, wireless and gramophones in the house.
At the time, these were often preferred to gramophone recordings on the grounds of their superior sound and the range of their repertoire.
The feminisation of the gramophone is a well-rehearsed topic.
The gramophone had the capacity to transcend these social relations, and to mobilise interest in music beyond that of an aesthetic oligarchy.