- Prologue
- 1. When Songs Became a Business
- 2. Making Hits
- 3. Music without Musicians
- 4. The Traffic in Voices
- 5. Musical Properties
- 6. Perfect Pitch
- 7. The Black Swan
- 8. The Musical Soundscape of Modernity
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations in Notes
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Selling Sounds
The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Book Details
PAPERBACK
$19.95 • £14.95 • €18.00
ISBN 9780674064041
Publication: May 2012
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Awards
- 2011 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Certificate of Merit, 2010 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound Category, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
- Honorable Mention, 2010 Woody Guthrie Award, US Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
- 2010 Hagley Prize, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2009
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