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Inventing Entertainment - The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry (Hardcover, New)
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Inventing Entertainment - The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry (Hardcover, New)
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Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in
relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter
in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the
American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For
years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores
for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos
destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the
player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild
of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry.
The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the
pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it
made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than
something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience
because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City
could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music
(ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent
along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only
automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and
their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and
technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in
American music and American life.
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