1904 w/ Otto Abraham in Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie  "On the significance of the phonograph for comparative musicology," "Turkish melodies recorded on the phonograph," "Indian melodies recorded on the phonograph."
review of Lach "On an interesting special case of 'color audition.'" 1906 /w Abraham "Indian melodies from British Columbia recorded on the phonograph," "Tunesian melodies recorded on the phonograph."

Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa. In 1877 music begn to become a thing.

chapter 3 - "His Master's Voice": The Victor Talking MAchine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph - into "angel of domestic spiritual uplift"; breaks with Victorian musical culture
chapter 4 - The Phonograph and the Evolution of "Foreign" and "Ethnic" Records

p. 78 "The cultural data of phonograph records was importantly a matter of representation....In many respects it was their physical quality as standardized, mass-produced goods taht helped to enforce their quality as specific cultural data, even as the culture they representd proved variable and unspecific in the extreme....What I am suggesting is that phonograph records frequently proved transgressive of the very cultural categories that they helped to represent as distinct or specific."

on "ethnic" records see Lizbeth Cohen (1990, 105), Victor Greene (1992) 

discuss circumstances of recordings

Craft, Robert. 1957. "The composer and the phonograph." High Fidelity 7 (6), June: 34-35, 99-100.

B. H. Haggin's Book of the Symphony (1937) came packaged with a rule to measure the distance from the outer groove of a record, ex. "the development section of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth start[s] at 2 7/16 inches as recorded by Koussevitzky and the London Philharmonic." (407)

Horowitz says, "In fact, the symphony exists in score - every recording is precisely an interpretation, and as such privileges the culture of performance." (408) 

Victor produced The Victor Book of the Symphony, The Victor Book of Concertos, The Victor Book of the Opera, What We Hear in Music, Music and Romance, Form in Music, and Music Appreiciation for Children. Curriculum favored symphony, short list of German, French, Italian and Russian composers. Exclusion of contemporary music, American composers, jazz.  Spotlight on RCA performers. (405)

Introduction discusses what Edison thought of music, use of phonograph for its recording.