Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

by Alex Sayf Cummings

Book Overview

It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the phonograph epoch of the 1930s. Piracy, it turns out, is as old as recorded music itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019067511X
• ISBN13: 9780190675110
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"