American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Yearsvolume I: The Beginning to 1790

by Russell Sanjek and the late Russell Sanjek

This three-volume work tells the complete story of American popular songs, their authors, and the business they set in motion. Volume one explores the inception of the music publishing business in Elizabethan England and traces music activity in England until 1790, examining popular balladry, copyright problems, the start of music printing, religious music, professional music makers, musical theater, eighteenth-century music, and such leading musical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040287
• ISBN13: 9780195040289
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"