First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, "The Recording ""Angel" charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating--or reversing--these trends. Influential and provocative, "The Recording Angel "is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had--and will have--on our experience of music.