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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Another Look At Bootlegging: Part 1
Description: On December 24, 1877, Thomas Edison filed a patent for a new invention he referred to as a “talking machine”…for the first time ever, audio could be captured, played back, stored, shared, and analyzed…When asked what the point of his machine was, Edison listed some future possibilities….His phonograph (as he called it) would eventually be used as a method of preserving great speeches….it could also be used for making audio letters, giving dictation, a talking clock, a telephone answering machine, and remote learning…and way down the list was “reproduction of music”…That original talk...