Selling sounds
Subtitle: the commercial revolution in American music
By: David Suisman.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780674033375
Subjects: Music trade -- United States; Music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: When songs became a business; title: Making hits; title: Music without musicians; title: The traffic in voices; title: Musical properties; title: Perfect pitch; title: The black swan; title: The musical soundscape of modernity.