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deathbed.” James Joyce, somewhat later, did better. He made
Finnegans Wake a tone poem that condensed in a single
sentence all the prattlings, exultations, observations, and
remorse of the entire human race. He could not have conceived
this work in any other age than the one that produced the
phonograph and the radio.
It was radio that finally injected a full electric charge into
the world of the phonograph. The radio receiver of 1924 was
already superior in sound quality, and soon began to depress
the phonograph and record business. Eventually, radio restored
the record business by extending popular taste in the direction
of the classics.
The real break came after the Second War with the
availability of the tape recorder. This meant the end of the