Noise uprising - Michael Denning

Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a
cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in
1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the
soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording
sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to
record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The
musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around
the globe: among them Havana's son, Rio's samba, New Orleans' jazz,
Buenos Aires' tango, Seville's flamenco, Cairo's tarab, Johannesburg's
marabi, Jakarta's kroncong, and Honolulu's hula. They triggered the
first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to
decolonization.