<DIV>First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, <I>The Recording </I><I>Angel</I> 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, <I>The Recording Angel </I>is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had?and will have?on our experience of music.<BR><BR></DIV>