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|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop

|author=Peter Doggett

|isbn= 978-1847922182

|website=http://www.peterdoggett.org

For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball', by Charles K. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.