The Joy of the Modern Home New Media and the Entertainment Market in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1890s-1920s)

• Main Author: Maas, Cecilia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) 2022
• Series: Historamericana 50
• Subjects: Early film; phonography; record industry; recorded sound; motion pictures; technology-in-use; Buenos Aires; Santiago; Montevideo; entertainment market; new media; consumption; cultural industries; niche economy; long tail; global history; Hollywood in Latin America; Jewish immigration; cultural history; economic history
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Early motion pictures and recorded sound had much more in common with Spotify and Netflix than we might think. Cecilia Maas describes how early twentieth century film and music industries favored niche culture and on-demand consumption. All of this on a global scale: Latin American cities were a key...