EMI is 100 years old. Using their previously untapped archives, this work tells the whole story of the company that discovered the Beatles and was at the forefront of the 1960s revolution in popular music. Illustrated with photographs, documents and recording memorabilia this guide outlines the development of the music industry.

Since Records Began Emi the First Yr

Business & Money

Martland, Peter

Economics

Amadeus Press

Lord Haw Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany  tells the story of William Joyce from a new angle: through the eyes of the British intelligence agents who pursued him from his teenage dalliance with fascism in the 1920s to his execution in 1946. The resulting files - and those on Joyce's wife Margaret, known as Lady Haw Haw - were kept secret for many years, but in 2000 were released to the UK National Archives. It is from these unique sources that this account of Joyce's life and personality is constructed. Featured documents range from broadcast transcripts to statements and correspondence from Joyce's family, friends and colleagues; from Joyce's official documents to his personal journal in the desperate days before his capture in May 1945. Along the way, many enduring questions about Lord Haw Haw are considered:· Why a man described as a nonentity was a threat to the British establishment.· How he captured the public's imagination to become universally loathed.· Why the authorities prosecuted when the documents published here prove they were aware of Joyce's American citizenship.· The circumstances that led to Joyce's execution when prosecution of his wife was waived on compassionate grounds.

Lord Haw Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany

Biographies & Memoirs

The National Archives, UK

Leaders & Notable People

Scarecrow Press

In Recording History, Peter Martland uses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, it surveys the commercial and business activities of the British record industry like no other work of recording history has before. Martland’s study charts the successes and failures of this industry and its impact on domestic entertainment. Showcasing its many colorful pioneers from both sides of the Atlantic, Recording History is first and foremost an account of The Gramophone Company Ltd, a precursor to today’s recording giant EMI, and then the most important British record company active from the late 19th century until the end of the second decade of the twentieth century. Martland’s history spans the years from the original inventors through industrial and market formation and final take-off—including the riveting battle in recording formats. Special attention is given to the impact of the First World War and the that followed in its wake. Scholars of recording history will find in Martland’s study the story of the development of the recording studio, of the artists who made the first records (from which some like Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso earned a fortune), and the change records wrought in the relationship between performer and audience, transforming the reception and appreciation of musical culture. Filling a much-needed gap in scholarship, Recording History documents the beginnings of the end of the contemporary international record industry.

Recording History: The British Record Industry, 1888 – 1931

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Traces the history of EMI Records from the sound recording experiments of the late nineteenth century to the present, documenting the contributions of artists from both the classical and popular music fields

Since Records Began: Emi : The First 100 Years

Arts & Photography

Music

Timber Pr

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