There was also a general recognition that if education via the gramophone was to succeed, teachers needed appropriate training.
In effect, the gramophone was roped into the service of protecting children from its own supposed ill effects.
At the same time, it was recognised that the educational uses of the gramophone were not restricted to the realm of music.
For a considerable period of time, musicians and music educators disparaged the gramophone.
Chapters 6 and 7 provide a fascinating history of the rise of gramophone magazines, and the record reviews which constitute their core.
The tape intervenes in the technological gap between typewriter and gramophone, presenting a contested space for reader improvisation between writing and sounding.
The legal attack on the gramophone had an unintended consequence.
The gramophone had the capacity to transcend these social relations, and to mobilise interest in music beyond that of an aesthetic oligarchy.
