Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

by David Hajdu

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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 453 meant to him, this is the place to start: the rise of Tin Pan Alley, of minstrelsy, of million copy sellers and One hit...Read more
  • ISBN10 0374170533
  • ISBN13 9780374170530
  • Publish Date 18 October 2016
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 September 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English