Sergio Ospina Romero is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He writes mostly about sound recording technologies and jazz in the early twentieth century. He is the author of three books and of several articles, book chapters, and other pieces published across the Americas, including flagship journals like JAMS, Ethnomusicology, and Twentieth-Century Music. Sergio is also an active musician. He leads his own Latin jazz quartet (Palonegro) and the salsa band La Salsoteca.

• .: Introduction: Imperialism and Phonograph Culture Part I. Production 1: Imperial Networks 2: Recording Scouts 3: The Talent Economy 4: Acoustic Listening Part II. Circulation and Consumption 5: Recorded Artifices 6: Exoticism on Record 7: The Everyday Life of Recorded Sound .: Afterword

Sergio Ospina Romero is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He writes mostly about sound recording technologies and jazz in the early twentieth century. He is the author of three books and of several articles, book chapters, and other pieces published across the Americas, including flagship journals like JAMS, Ethnomusicology, and Twentieth-Century Music. Sergio is also an active musician. He leads his own Latin jazz quartet (Palonegro) and the salsa band La Salsoteca.

• .: Introduction: Imperialism and Phonograph Culture Part I. Production 1: Imperial Networks 2: Recording Scouts 3: The Talent Economy 4: Acoustic Listening Part II. Circulation and Consumption 5: Recorded Artifices 6: Exoticism on Record 7: The Everyday Life of Recorded Sound .: Afterword

Sergio Ospina Romero is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He writes mostly about sound recording technologies and jazz in the early twentieth century. He is the author of three books and of several articles, book chapters, and other pieces published across the Americas, including flagship journals like JAMS, Ethnomusicology, and Twentieth-Century Music. Sergio is also an active musician. He leads his own Latin jazz quartet (Palonegro) and the salsa band La Salsoteca.

• .: Introduction: Imperialism and Phonograph Culture Part I. Production 1: Imperial Networks 2: Recording Scouts 3: The Talent Economy 4: Acoustic Listening Part II. Circulation and Consumption 5: Recorded Artifices 6: Exoticism on Record 7: The Everyday Life of Recorded Sound .: Afterword