Breaking records
Subtitle: 100 years of hits
By: William Ruhlmann.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Sound recording industry -- United States -- History.; Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Description: "Breaking Records gives a narrative history of American popular music and the pop music industry. Organized by decade, each chapter gives an overview of the major developments, technologically, commercially, and musically, for all types of popular music-making. Technological developments, from the birth of radio and the phonograph to downloading, file-sharing, and burning CDs, are described in relation to how they affected musicians and the industry itself. Key performers and their major hits are profiled." "Breaking Records is a story of how business and art have interacted, and sometimes clashed, through a century of new musical developments."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The 1900s : the birth of the recording industry; title: The 1910s : stage, sheet music, and disc : a new synergy; title: The 1920s : the jazz age; title: The 1930s : brother, can you spare a dime?; title: The 1940s : war at home, war abroad; title: The 1950s : all shook up; title: The 1960s : the rock invasion; title: The 1970s : the balkanization of popular music; title: The 1980s : the rise of the music video star; title: The 1990s : the digital revolution begins.