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American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century
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Product DescriptionWhen the late Russell Sanjek's monumental three volume history, American Popular Music and Its Business, first appeared, it was acclaimed as an unprecedented contribution to the study of American popular culture. Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records called it a "colossal work of research andwriting," and Nat Hentoff lauded this history as "an astonishing work of discovery" and "a lucid, continuously absorbing narrative. There is nothing else like it in the literature.Now, David Sanjek, the author's son, and a scholar of American culture in his own right, has condensed and updated the last volume of this classic, providing a richly detailed history of the music business in the 20th century. Sanjek traces the incredible technological and economic revolutionwhich has accompanied popular music in the last ninety years, starting with Thomas Edison's important turn of the century inventions and following through all the way to the rise of the compact disc and Digital Audio Tape. The business side of popular music figures largely in this illuminatingstudy--from the rise and fall of vaudeville to the huge entertainment conglomerates like Time-Warner Brothers and Thorn-EMI; from the sale of sheet music (at one time the major source for the dissemination of songs) to the marketing of music videos on MTV; and from early wheeler-dealers like E.F.Albee and Marcus Loew to modern day mega-stars like Michael Jackson (who bought the rights to many Lennon/McCartney songs for $40 million in 1984). There are numerous insights into the long-term relationship between movies and music, from the earliest silent films, when live music was used to coverup the sound of the projector, to the blockbusters of the '70s and '80s like Saturday Night Fever, the soundtrack for which sold 15 million copies in the U.S. alone.Incorporating anecdotes and filled with information not previously found in any single volume, The American Popular Music Business in the Twentieth Century is an important resource for anyone interested in how music is produced and marketed. As a longtime industry insider, Russell Sanjek hada unique and unprecedented knowledge of the music business--now his knowledge is available to the non-specialist, as well as the scholar of popular culture.From Publishers WeeklyDavid Sanjek, archive director at Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), here condenses and updates the last volume of American Popular Music and Its Business, a three-volume work written by his late father, Russell Sanjek, chronicling the course of the popular music business from the days when pianos were first installed in nickelodeons to the advent of VCRs, CDs and digital audiotapes. The book tells the complex story of technical innovations, endless machinations within the recording and music-publishing industries, the long history of the antagonism between ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and BMI, the merchandising of superstars, battles over licensing and struggles for corporate control of the musical marketplace. Much information is packed into the dense text, but the book is written in such a dry, sometimes awkward style that it will hold little interest for anyone who is not a specialist in this field.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalThis is a reworked and updated edition of Volume 3 of the acclaimed three-volume set by the late Russell Sanjek, American Popular Music and It's Business (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1988). While the earlier volume covered the years 1900-84, the new volume, revised by his son David, completes the decade and looks toward the 1990s. This is in-depth American music business history, and it is complex, particularly concerning the rivalry between publishing giants ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) and BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated). The issues of licensing, fees, "payola," MTV (Music Television), new recording technology, and much mor
Author: Sanjek, Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195058283
ISBN-13: 9780195058284
Author: Sanjek, Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195058283
ISBN-13: 9780195058284