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(1979) Technics and praxis, Dordrecht, Springer.
Followers of the McLuhan style of thought concerning the influence of media often point out that the invention of high fidelity recording is to music what the printing press was to writing. Just as books from a printing press became both easily reproducible and inexpensive and thus created the conditions for a wider literate culture, so inexpensive and widely available recordings create the conditions for a wider musical culture.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9900-8_8
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Ihde, D. (1979). Bach to rock, a musical odyssey, in Technics and praxis, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 93-100.
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