Selling Sounds
The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Published on 30. September 2009
368 pages
978-0-674-05468-4 (ISBN)
Description
From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman's Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Provocative, original, and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of America's musical life.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05468-4 (9780674054684)
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05/2009
Harvard University Press
€50.94
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Person
David Suisman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware.
Content
Contents Prologue 1. When Songs Became a Business 2. Making Hits 3. Music without Musicians 4. The Traffic in Voices 5. Musical Properties 6. Perfect Pitch 7. The Black Swan 8. The Musical Soundscape of Modernity Epilogue Abbreviations in Notes Notes Acknowledgments Index
