American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred YearsVolume 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. |
Contents
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The Business of Popular Music 18001860 | 25 |
Sheet Music Publishing in PreCivil War America | 47 |
American Musical Theater 18001860 | 146 |
The Music of Gods Americans 18001860 | 179 |
The Singinest War 18611865 | 225 |
The Music of Gods Americans 18651909 | 247 |
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