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Repeated Takes keyword-prisoners and the archetypal gadfly MaratRepeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edisons talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music into a saleable object, and describes the upset which this caused in musical culture. He asks: What goes on in a recording studio? How does it affect the