Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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