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From Vinyl to Streaming: How music formats shaped our world

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Role of Recorded Sound in Popular Culture

Adam Tvelle works in a department called Sound and Vision at the British Library. He says recorded sound is such a rich source of social history. We have to go back to the 1860s when we think about the first recorded sound. Here's a recording made on the phonograph in 1860. The voice on the recording is most likely Demartanville himself, singing Eau Claire de L'Alune.

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