The blues and sound recording technology
 

Russell 77: "the blues are the first musical genre to owe their ongoing historical existence--their 'tradition'--almost entirely to the technology of sound recording"

> from Bruce Russell's Left-Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009 (2009)

> tagged with #music, #technology

> created Jan 14, 2025 at 12:36:26 PM


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