Introduction / the editors
Learning to live with recording / Susan Tomes
A short take in praise of long takes / Peter Hill
Performing for (and against) the microphone / Donald Greig
Producing a credible vocal / Mike Howlett
It could have happened : the evolution of music construction / Steve Savage
Recording practices and the role of the producer / Andrew Blake
Still small voices / Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Broadening horizons : 'performance' in the studio / Michael Haas
Getting sounds : the art of sound engineering / Albin Zak
Limitations and creativity in recording and performance / Martyn Ware
Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978-80 / Richard Witts
The politics of the recording studio : a case study from South Africa / Louise Meintjes
From Lanza to Lassus / Tully Potter
From wind-up to iPod : techno-cultures of listening / Arild Bergh and Tia DeNora
A matter of circumstance : on experiencing recordings / Martin Elste
Selling sounds : recordings and the record business / David Patmore
Revisiting concert life in the mid-century : the survival of acetate discs / Lewis Foreman
The development of recording technologies / George Brock-Nannestad
Raiders of the lost archive / Roger Beardsley
The original cast recording of West Side Story / Nigel Simeone
The recorded document : interpretation and discography / Simon Trezise
One man's approach to remastering / Ted Kendall
Technology, the studio, music / Nick Mason
Reminder : a recording is not a performance / Roger Heaton
Methods for analysing recordings / Nicholas Cook
Recordings and histories of performance style / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Recreating history : a clarinettist's retrospective / Colin Lawson
Going critical : writing about recordings / Simon Frith
Something in the air / Chris Watson
Recording : from reproduction to representation to remediation / Georgina Born.