Barnett, Kyle. Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Brooks, Tim. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Camlot, Jason. "Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880–1920." Book History 6 (2003): 147–73.
DeGraaf, Leonard. "Confronting the Mass Market: Thomas Edison and the Entertainment Phonograph." Business and Economic History 24 (1995): 88–96.
De Lautour, Reuben. “Sound, Reproduction, Mysticism: Thomas Edison and the Mythology of the Phonograph.” Música em Contexto 1 (2015): 23–53.
Feaster, Patrick. “The Artifice of Nineteenth-Century Phonographic Business Dictation.” The Velvet Light Trap 72 (2010): 3–16.
_____. "'The following record': Making Sense of Phonographic Performance, 1877–1908." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 2007.
_____. “Phonographic Etiquette; or ‘The Spirit First Moves Mister Knowles.’” Victorian Review 38 (2012.):18–23.
_____. "‘Rise and Obey the Command’: Performative Fidelity and the Exercise of Phonographic Power." Journal of Popular Music Studies 24 (2012): 357–95.
_____. "Things Enough for So Many Dolls to Say": A Cultural History of the Edison Talking Doll Record. Online publication hosted by U.S. National Park Service (2015; https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/photosmultimedia/a-cultural-history-of-the-edison-talking-doll-record.htm).
Frow, George L. Edison Cylinder Phonograph Companion. Woodland Hills, Calif.: Stationary X-Press, 1994.
_____. Edison Disc Phonographs and the Diamond Discs. Los Angeles: Mulholland Press, Inc., 2001.
Gitelman, Lisa. "The Phonograph's New Media Publics." In Jonathan Sterne, ed., The Sound Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 283–303.
_____. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Grack, Tim, with Frank Hoffman. Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895–1925. New York: Haworth Press, 2000.
Hochman, Brian. Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Hui, Alexandra. "Lost: Thomas Edison’s Mood Music Found: New Ways of Listening," Endeavor 38:2 (2014): 139–42.
Israel, Paul. "The Unknown History of the Tinfoil Phonograph." NARAS Journal 8 (1997–1998): 29–42.
Kelleher, Kevin Daniel. "The Contributions of Thomas Alva Edison to Music Education," Ph.D. diss., Old Dominion University, 2013.
Kenney, William Howland. Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Koenigsberg, Allen. Edison Cylinder Records, 1889–1912, with an Illustrated History of the Phonograph. New York: Stellar Productions, 1969.
———. The Patent History of the Phonograph, 1877–1912. Brooklyn, N.Y.: APM Press, 1990.
———. The Patent History of the Phonograph, 1877–1912. Brooklyn, N.Y.: APM Press, 1992.
Korzi, Michael J. "William Howard Taft, the 1908 Election, and the Future of the American Presidency." Congress & the Presidency 43:2 (2016): 227–54.
Leppert, Richard. “Caruso, Phonography, and Operatic Fidelities: Regimes of Musical Listening, 1904–1929.” Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature: Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, chap. 3.
Magoun, Alexander. "Shaping the Sound of Music: The Evolution of the Phonograph Record, 1877–1950.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 2000.
Martland, Peter. Recording History: The British Record Industry, 1888–1931. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Millard, Andre. America On Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Morton, David. Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Picker, John. “The Victorian Aura of the Recorded Voice.” New Literary History 32 (2001): 770.
Radick, Gregory. “Morgan's Canon, Garner's Phonograph, and the Evolutionary Origins of Language and Reason.” British Journal for the History of Science 33:1 (2000): 3–23.
Read, Oliver, and Walter L. Welch. From Tin Foil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph. Indianapolis: H. W. Sams, 1959, 1976.
Rubery, Matthew. “Canned Literature: The Book after Edison.” Book History 16 (2013): 215–45.
Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. "Experiments with Melody and Meter, or the Effects of Music: The Edison-Bingham Music Research." The Musical Quarterly 81 (1997): 291–310.
Thompson, Emily. "Machines, Music, and the Quest for Fidelity: Marketing the Edison Phonograph in America, 1877–1925." Musical Quarterly 79 (1995): 131–71.
———. "Is It Real or Is It a Machine?" American Heritage of Invention & Technology 12 (1997): 50–56.
Siefert, Marsha. "Aesthetics, Technology, and the Capitalization of Culture: How the Talking Machine Became a Musical Instrument." Science in Context 8 (1995): 417–49.
Vest, Jacques. "Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1870–1930." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2018.
Welch, Walter L., and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt. From Tinfoil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry, 1877–1929. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Wile, Raymond R. "Jack Fell Down and Broke His Crown: The Fate of the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company." Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 19, nos. 2–3 (1987): 5–36.
———. "The Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company and the Beginnings of the Nickel-in-the-Slot Phonograph." Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 33, Spring (2002): 1–20.
———. "The Metropolitan Phonograph Company." Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 34, Spring (2003): 1–13.
