books.google.co.uk - Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Repeated_Takes.html?id=MAn38JBuwKoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRepeated Takes