Where Have All the Good Times Gone? : The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry
Louis. Barfe
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Atlantic Books Ltd, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (788 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Buying - and selling - the Edison myth; 2 Tvinkle, tvinkle, little star; 3 The Jones boy; 4 Continental shift; 5 The Coldstream Guards and all that jazz; 6 Brother, can you spare 75c for a gramophone record?; 7 Don't you know there's a war on?; 8 Picking up the pieces; 9 Pop goes the weasel; 10 Paris, Liverpool and British West Hampstead; 11 The spirit of independence; 12 You can spread jam on them; 13 Caught Napstering; AFTERWORD; NOTES; FURTHER READING. - INDEX. - Louis Barfe's elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. Barfe shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the departure of Edison from the phonograph business he created and the birth of EMI and CBS. In the years after the war, these companies, and the buccaneers, hucksters, impresarios and con-men who ran them, reaped stupendous commercial benefits with the arrival of Elvis Presley, who changed popular music (and sales of popular music) overnight. After Presley came the Beat
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| ISBN | 1-84354-067-3(h.)
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