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Selling sounds : the commercial revolution in American music / David Suisman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054684
  • 0674054687
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selling sounds.DDC classification:
  • 338.4/7780973 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3790 .S88 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-337) and index.

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.

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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.

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