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Re: [ARSCLIST] Is there a good history of EMI out there ?
From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello,
Sam Brylawsky wrote
> The author of this volume, Peter Martland, wrote his dissertation for a
> history degree (from Cambridge, I believe) on a history EMI. Peter plans
> on
> turning his dissertation into a trade book in the next few years. In the
> meantime, if British dissertations are available for sale, as are U.S.
> ones,
> the academic version might be available now.
----- Peter Martland's dissertation from 1992 was called "A Business History
of The Gramophone Company Ltd. 1897-1918", so it does not at all cover the
merger that formed Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd.
As usual, the wheeling and dealing that went on behind the scenes has not yet
been told, but one thing must be regarded as a tremendous boon to recorded
sound: the EMI Archives eventually obtained all the surviving Columbia
matrices, including those that this company had obtained from Fonotipia and
Odeon (and thereby also those that the International Talking Machine Company
had from e.g. Homokord). It is this that has enabled first the old 1970s
series of Historic Masters and also the present organization to find such
material for reissue on silent vinyl, even though it was originally created
in competition with the Gramophone Company.
Kind regards,
George
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 1:42 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This is the best one that I have seen - and it's a steal on Amazon.
> >
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> http://www.amazon.com/Since-Records-Began-First-Years/dp/1574670336/ref=sr_1
> _1/102-0473554-5208905?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194892851&sr=1-1
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 9:52 am
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Is there a good history of EMI out there ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I am looking for a good,detailed book on the history of EMI,particularly
> > before
> > 1950. I would like to read in as much detail as I can about the 1931
> > HMV-Columbia merger.I believe there was at least one very detailed book
> > about
> > this,published in the 1970s.Can anybody fill me in as to the details?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roger
> >
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