| Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits Contributor(s): Ruhlmann, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415943051 ISBN-13: 9780415943055 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: New technologies are rapidly changing the way music is recorded, sold, and enjoyed. Although these challenges appear to be unprecedented, Breaking Records offers a look back at the last 100 years that reveals that the recording industry has always initially feared--but eventually profited from--rapid shifts in the way music is recorded, distributed, and performed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal |
| Dewey: 781.640 |
| LCCN: 2003018360 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.34" W x 9.26" (1.24 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century. It already existed, just barely, when the century began, and by the start of the twenty-first century, whatever its troubles, it had become a very big business: 785 million albums in 2000 might not have represented much of an increase over the previous year, but it was still a lot of records. The story of the industry's development is a financial and commercial one, concerning sales, competition, and economic forces, and it is also a musical one, concerning musicians and songwriters. The history of a country's music is, to an extent, the history of the country itself, and much more could be said--indeed, much more has been said--about that than can be attempted here. But it is hoped that with this overview the reader will gain a certain perspective on that history and the way that the creation of an art form interacts with the machinery of its distribution--or has, thus far, anyway. |