Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music

By David Suisman

Book Overview

From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player pianos to race records, this book explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of the modern musical soundscape.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067403337X
• ISBN13: 9780674033375
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"