Little Labels¿Big Sound
Subtitle: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780253214348
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Music industry; Music recording & reproduction; Social history; 20th century; Music/Songbooks; Music; North America; USA; Business Aspects; History & Criticism - General; Reference; General; United States - General
First sentence: In April 1923, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, the rage of Chicago's black nightclub district, took a five-hour train ride across rural Indiana to the Starr Piano factory in the small industrial town of Richmond.