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Selling sounds : the commercial revolution in American music / David Suisman.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suisman, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music trade--United States.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman 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.
- Contents:
- When songs became a business
- Making hits
- Music without musicians
- The traffic in voices
- Musical properties
- Perfect pitch
- The black swan
- The musical soundscape of modernity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054684
- 0674054687
- OCLC:
- 648757482
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