American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years

American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years
ISBN-10
0195364627
ISBN-13
9780195364620
Category
Music
Pages
494
Language
English
Published
1988-07-28
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
the late Russell Sanjek

Description

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.

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