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Twenty Thousand Hertz
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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