Review: the Phonographic Sensorium

Abstract

The collective book Los surcos de la memoria, coordinated by Eslava himself and published in a co-edition by the Fonoteca Nacional and the Faculty of Music of UNAM, tells the story of these cylinders and, at the same time, uses them as a pretext to narrate an unprecedented passage in the history of phonography in the country. In this regard, it is worth highlighting that one of the first contributions of this work is its methodological value, as it is an exemplary case of systematization in the use of sound documents as a source of information for historical research.