Peter Martland is a historian whose books are mainly concerned with the recording industry and the British secret intelligence community.
The present book is in many ways an expansion of Martland’ s
previous work. ... Recording History is still a very important
book. . . . the part on Columbia is excellent, and the book can
also be considered the definitive study of entire British sound
recording industry up to 1918, as Martland’s original dissertation
also surveyed the industry’s origins and Gramophone’s competitors
in great detail. ... Recording History will become a standard
reference work on the history of the recording industry. We must be
especially grateful to the author for making available a huge
amount of economic data from the EMI archives, as this part of the
archives seems to have been completely closed to researchers for
the past decade. And we should hope that one day Martland will also
find the time to continue the history of the British record
industry at least up to the 1950s. Certainly no one has the same
qualifications for this job as he does.
*ARSC Journal*
This book is well-written and a worthy addition to every record
collector's library. ... Until now, no book has examined the
recording industry itself in detail as a business and examined how
the marketing of phonographs and records was handled to become such
a major industry.
*WFOS.FM*
Dr. Martland is nothing if not thorough and the ready availability
of such a wealth of detailed information makes this work an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in the business side of
the recording industry. Any future rival volume on the subject will
be redundant.
*Teaching History: A Journal of Methods*
This will surely stand as a major reference book in the field for a
long time to come and is highly recommended.
*In The Groove*
This book is effectively a secondary source in its own right,
bringing together an astonishing range of facts and figures, many
not previously exposed to comparative historical gaze. Even the
choice of photographs, while including old (and essential)
favourites of the pioneers and their efforts, yields pleasing
variations, along with reproductions of telling contemporary
advertisements.
*For the Record*
Until now, no book has examined the recording industry itself in
detail as a business and how the marketing of phonographs…and
records was handled to become such a major industry. This history
is just as interesting as the technological side, which Martland
examines in considerable detail….This book is a well-written and
worthy addition to every record collector’s library.
*Bill Russell, WFOS-FM (Chesapeake, VA)*
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