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Love for Sale - Pop Music in America (Paperback)
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Love for Sale - Pop Music in America (Paperback)
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List price R502
Loot Price R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
You Save R68 (14%)
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David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop
music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences of
the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music era at the end of the
nineteenth century. It was not so much the beginning of popular
music - many songs were already popular - as it was the beginning
of the popular music industry. And if he's going to understand what
his 45s meant to him, this is the place to start: the rise of Tin
Pan Alley, of minstrelsy, of million-copy sellers and one-hit
wonders and cultural arbiters decrying the baseness, simplicity,
and signs of the end of times in popular music. Love for Sale does
ultimately spin through more familiar territory - the Cotton Club,
the rise of radio, the battle of disco versus punk for the soul of
New York as Hajdu made his chops as a critic, the rise of hip-hop,
and the current atomisation of the music landscape - but it is
always with a unique, insightful, and eloquently presented point of
view, as one would expect from one of our most celebrated music
critics.
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