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In music recording: Birth of a mass medium
…mainly on dance records in jukeboxes to satisfy a dwindled market, Europe supplied a slow but steady trickle of classical recordings. In 1931 the His Master’s Voice (HMV) label in Great Britain began its “Society” issues: a limited public was asked to subscribe in advance to then esoteric releases—the complete…
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In Independent record labels and producers
…each of which stood a jukebox that needed stocking with an ever-changing stack of 78-rpm records. These records had to have either a beat heavy enough to cut through the raucous clamour of a bar or a message desolate enough to haunt late-night drinkers not yet ready to go home.…
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