Book: American Popular Music & Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume Ii: From 1790 To 1909 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.
Details of Book: American Popular Music & Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume Ii: From 1790 To 1909 Book: American Popular Music & Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume Ii: From 1790 To 1909
Author: Russell Sanjek
ISBN: 0195043103
ISBN-13: 9780195043105
, 978-0195043105
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 27101988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Number of Pages: 492
Language: English