Since Records Began. EMI. The first hundred years
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- Author(s) Martland, Peter, & Ruth Edge (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 359pp; illus
- Publisher Batsford
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Official history commissioned from a specialist writer on recording industry. Strong focus on EMI's recorded music businesses and their origins with little on EMI's other extensive manufacturing and services interests. In three parts, viz: 1] birth of the recording industry, 1881-97, and accounts of EMI's historical constituents - Gramophone Co, 1897-1931, and Columbia Graphophone Co, 1897-1931; 2] corporate history of EMI, 1931-61, and chapters on EMI's classical recordings, 1931-61, and popular music recordings, ditto; 3] EMI's emergence as a world leader in popular music to match its standing in classical music, 1962-97, and corporate history of EMI, 1962-97