David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

This book is music to my ears-- a much needed history of the rise of the commercial music industry in the first decades of the twentieth century. Deeply researched, smartly argued, and engagingly written, Selling Sounds will sweep you off your feet.

• * Prologue * When Songs Became a Business * Making Hits * Music without Musicians * The Traffic in Voices * Musical Properties * Perfect Pitch * The Black Swan * The Musical Soundscape of Modernity * Epilogue * Abbreviations in Notes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

This book is music to my ears-- a much needed history of the rise of the commercial music industry in the first decades of the twentieth century. Deeply researched, smartly argued, and engagingly written, Selling Sounds will sweep you off your feet.

• * Prologue * When Songs Became a Business * Making Hits * Music without Musicians * The Traffic in Voices * Musical Properties * Perfect Pitch * The Black Swan * The Musical Soundscape of Modernity * Epilogue * Abbreviations in Notes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

This book is music to my ears-- a much needed history of the rise of the commercial music industry in the first decades of the twentieth century. Deeply researched, smartly argued, and engagingly written, Selling Sounds will sweep you off your feet.

• * Prologue * When Songs Became a Business * Making Hits * Music without Musicians * The Traffic in Voices * Musical Properties * Perfect Pitch * The Black Swan * The Musical Soundscape of Modernity * Epilogue * Abbreviations in Notes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index