Breaking Records
100 Years of Hits
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 March 2004
- ISBN 9780415943055
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 589 g
- Language English 0
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century. It already existed, just barely, when the century began, and by the start of the twenty-first century, whatever its troubles, it had become a very big business: 785 million albums in 2000 might not have represented much of an increase over the previous year, but it was still a lot of records. The story of the industry?s development is a financial and commercial one, concerning sales, competition, and economic forces, and it is also a musical one, concerning musicians and songwriters. The history of a country?s music is, to an extent, the history of the country itself, and much more could be said?indeed, much more has been said?about that than can be attempted here. But it is hoped that with this overview the reader will gain a certain perspective on that history and the way that the creation of an art form interacts with the machinery of its distribution?or has, thus far, anyway.
"When music critics and fans debate such lofty imponderables as "the greatest records of all time" or "the most influential artists ever," they are necessarily referring to the vast library of recorded sound produced during the 20th Century. Few writers have the knowledge or wherewithal to take on a span of time that delivered everyone from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Robert Johnson to Led Zeppelin, Bing Crosby to the Beatles and onward--Ellington to Elvis, Hank to Hendrix, Coltrane to Cobain. William Ruhlmann has managed, in a single volume, to encapsulate virtually the entire history of recorded popular music, from the age of the wax cylinder to the advent of the MP3. It's a truly remarkable tale, told in lively, informative prose that encourages discovery and compels the reader to marvel." -- Jeff Tamarkin, author of Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 The 1900s, The Birth of the Recording Industry Chapter 2 The 1910s, Stage, Sheet Music, and Disc: A New Synergy Chapter 3 The 1920s, The Jazz Age Chapter 4, The 1930s Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Chapter 5 War at Home, War Abroad Chapter 6 The 1950s, All Shook Up Chapter 7 The 1960s, The Rock Invation Chapter 8 The 1970s, The Balkanization of Popular Music Chapter 9 The 1980s, The Rise of the Music Video Star Chapter 10 The 1990s, The Digital Revolution Begins
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