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American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred YearsVolume II: From 1790 to 1909

hardcover – July 28, 1988
by Sanjek, the late Russell
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ISBN-13: 9780195043105 ISBN-10: 0195043103
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Binding
hardcover
Published
July 28, 1988
Weight
1.9 lbs
Dimensions
23.80×3.80×16.20 cm

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American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred YearsVolume II: From 1790 to 1909 by Sanjek, the late Russell. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780195043105.

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.