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Sound And Vision: Marketing Recorded Music In The Age Of Radio, Daniel Martin Murphy
Sound And Vision: Marketing Recorded Music In The Age Of Radio, Daniel Martin Murphy
Theses and Dissertations
In the early 1930s, the popularity of radio and the economic austerity of the Great Depression threatened to make the phonograph record obsolete. However, by the time the United States entered World War II in 1941, records were returning to popularity. This return coincided with the first instances of the appearance of unique cover artwork on record albums. This thesis explores the cultural and industrial factors that converged in the late 1930s to make album artwork viable in ways that it would not have been earlier. This thesis also investigates how RCA Victor and Columbia, two record companies that had …