Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. The Dodgy Business of Popular Music - Simon Napier-Bell

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Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside not just a creative industry but a business that has made people wildly rich. This book describes the evolution of the industry from 1713 the year parliament granted writers ownership over what they wrote to today when a global industry is controlled by just three major players Sony Universal and Warner. Inside you will uncover little-known industry facts including how a formula for writing hit songs in the 1900s helped create 50 000 of the best-known songs of all time how infighting in the American pre-war music industry shut down traditional radio and created an opening for country music race records and rock n roll how Jewish immigrants and black jazz musicians dancing cheek-to-cheek created a template for all popular music that followed and how rock tours became the biggest quickest sleaziest and most profitable ventures the music industry has ever seen.

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