Cable in the Classroom: H. Goodall's Big Bang #5
In this five-part program, British personality, composer and musician Howard Goodall reviews the history of music, making brief stops along the way to tell the story of individuals who achieved a seminal moment of music innovation - a "big bang". In episode five Goodall discusses the tremendous impact on the world of music by the invention of recorded sound. Explaining the inventions of the Phonautograph and the Paleophone by Frenchmen, and the Phonograph by Edison, Goodall details the importance and diverse effects of recorded sound on our modern world.