Selling Sounds The Commercial Revolution in American Music

Name: Selling Sounds The Commercial Revolution in American Music
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ISBN: 9780674064041

ISBN-10: 0674064046

ISBN-13: 9780674064041

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Suisman

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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. Around the turn of the twentieth century, music entrepreneurs laid the foundation for today’s vast industry, with new products, technologies, and commercial strategies to incorporate music into the daily rhythm of modern life. Popular songs filled the air with a new kind of musical pleasure, phonographs brought opera into the parlor, and celebrity performers like Enrico Caruso captivated the imagination of consumers from coast to coast.Selling Sounds uncovers the origins of the culture industry…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.