American popular music and its business
Subtitle: the first four hundred years
By: Russell Sanjek.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism; Music -- United States -- History and criticism; Music trade -- United States -- History
Description: This three-volume work tells the complete story of American popular songs, their authors, and the business they set in motion. Volume one explores the inception of the music publishing business in Elizabethan England and traces music activity in England until 1790, examining popular balladry, copyright problems, the start of music printing, religious music, professional music makers, musical theater, eighteenth-century music, and such leading musical figures as Purcell, Handel, and Haydn. Also discussed are the beginnings of music in the United States, including musical theater, black music, and the Great Awakening and its relationship to music publishing [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The beginning to 1790; title: v. 2. From 1790 to 1909; title: v. 3. From 1900 to 1984.