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Breaking records : 100 years of hits

Author: William Ruhlmann
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Breaking Records gives a narrative history of American popular music and the pop music industry. Organized by decade, each chapter gives an overview of the major developments, technologically, commercially, and musically, for all types of popular music-making. Technological developments, from the birth of radio and the phonograph to downloading, file-sharing, and burning CDs, are described in relation to how they
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Ruhlmann
ISBN: 0415943051 9780415943055 9780203644034 0203644034
OCLC Number: 52887023
Description: xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The 1900s : the birth of the recording industry --
The 1910s : stage, sheet music, and disc : a new synergy --
The 1920s : the jazz age --
The 1930s : brother, can you spare a dime? --
The 1940s : war at home, war abroad --
The 1950s : all shook up --
The 1960s : the rock invasion --
The 1970s : the balkanization of popular music --
The 1980s : the rise of the music video star --
The 1990s : the digital revolution begins.
Responsibility: William Ruhlmann.
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