487 Pages
by
Routledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
487 Pages
by
Routledge
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The great depression in the popular recording industry that began in 1979 still continues. There are signs, however, that the industry is adjusting to new technologies and may soon revive. R. Serge Denisoff documents the decline and possible revival of this comprehensive study of the recording business, a sequel to his widely acclaimed Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry . Denisoff offers a... Read more
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
I. What Is Popular Music?
2. Emptiness in Harmony: The Artist
3. The Star-Making Machinery: The Record Companies
4. Inside the Record Company
5. And the Hits Keep Coming? Radio
6. Print: A Necessary Evil?
7. Video Killed the Radio Star?
8. Backmasking, Bonfires, and the Right
9. Who Knows? - The Demise of the Rock Culture?
Epilogue
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names of People and Singing Groups
Index of Recording/Video Clips
Biography
R. Serge Denisoff
