Selling Sounds - The Commercial Revolution in American Music

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Suisman, Suisman David
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674064041
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06404-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / History & Criticism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, MUSIC / Business Aspects, Business & management, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Music: styles and genres