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Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money

Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money

Playback is the first book to place the staggering history of sound reproduction within its larger social and cultural context.

2005

Stories

Pinned

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Pull Up To The Bumper

Summer in the City 1981

Apr 6, 2017

Pull Up To The Bumper

Apr 6, 2017

Mark Coleman

R Meltzer (Re) Considered

Oct 22

R Meltzer (Re) Considered

Oct 22

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Book Review: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

Jul 29

Book Review: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

Jul 29

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“I Go Through People”

A Very Short Story

Jul 24

“I Go Through People”

Jul 24

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A Party On Every Page: The Star Hits Saga Part 2 (1984-85)

Since Star Hits readers were predominantly teenage girls, it makes sense that two dynamic young women helped to refine and redefine the…

May 1

A Party On Every Page: The Star Hits Saga Part 2 (1984-85)

May 1

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Book Review: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Beginning with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and continuing with so-called New Journalism during the late Sixties, people tossed around the…

Feb 13

Book Review: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Feb 13

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“If You Don’t Know The Words You Can’t Sing Along”

Launching Star Hits magazine 1984

Jan 10

“If You Don’t Know The Words You Can’t Sing Along”

Jan 10

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“One great thing about New York is how you can lead two different lives”

My first friends in the city provided a primer in the promise, and the perils, of radical self-invention

Nov 27, 2023

“One great thing about New York is how you can lead two different lives”

Nov 27, 2023

Mark Coleman

So Far West It’s Nearly In New Jersey

My second NYC apartment sat on the edge of a then-obscure Manhattan neighborhood known as the Meatpacking District

Nov 16, 2023

So Far West It’s Nearly In New Jersey

Nov 16, 2023

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Summer Arts & Culture Guide 1981

An under-the-radar music festival and an over-the-top action movie set the stage for my first season in New York

Oct 6, 2023

Summer Arts & Culture Guide 1981

Oct 6, 2023

Mark Coleman

Mark Coleman

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Author of Playback, music geek, art museum nerd, compulsive reader, cook/bottle-washer. Still in NYC.

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