The Victor Rapid Record Selector
Title | The Victor Rapid Record Selector PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Selling Sounds
Title | Selling Sounds PDF eBook |
Author | David Suisman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2009-05-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 067403337X |
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 in music and chronicles how music ignited an auditory explosion that penetrated all aspects of society. It maps the growth of the music business across the social landscape—in homes, theaters, department stores, schools—and analyzes the effect of this development on everything from copyright law to the sensory environment. While music came to resemble other consumer goods, its distinct properties as sound ensured that its commercial growth and social impact would remain unique. Today, the music that surrounds us—from iPods to ring tones to Muzak—accompanies us everywhere from airports to grocery stores. The roots of this modern culture lie in the business of popular song, player-pianos, and phonographs of a century ago. Provocative, original, and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of America’s musical life.
The Victor Rapid Record Selector. Containing Interesting Non-technical Information Regarding More Than 2500 Standard Victor Records, Etc
Title | The Victor Rapid Record Selector. Containing Interesting Non-technical Information Regarding More Than 2500 Standard Victor Records, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Ernest WIER |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Title | Catalogue of Copyright Entries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1154 |
Release | 1916-07 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Title | Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1178 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN |
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Title | The Publishers' Trade List Annual PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1906 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Publishers' catalogs |
ISBN |
The Cumulative Book Index
Title | The Cumulative Book Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 930 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | American literature |
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