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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824523103321

Autore

Sanjek Russell

Titolo

American popular music and its business : the first four hundred years / / Russell Sanjek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

0-19-024329-5

1-280-60009-8

9786610600090

0-19-536462-7

1-4237-4227-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Disciplina

780/.42/0973

Soggetti

Popular music - United States - History and criticism

Music - United States - History and criticism

Music trade - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. The beginning to 1790 -- v. 2. From 1790 to 1909 -- v. 3. From 1900 to 1984.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the second of three volumes designed, in the author's words, to tell 'the story of America's popular songs, the people who wrote them, and the business they created and sustained'.