Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits

by William Ruhlmann

This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century. It already existed, just barely, when the century began, and by the start of the twenty-first century, whatever its troubles, it had become a very big business: 785 million albums in 2000 might not have represented much of an increase over the previous year, but it was still a lot of records. The story of the industry's development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138870234
• ISBN13: 9781138870239
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"