recording industry

…the organization of the multinational recording industry, in the sales racks of international record retailers, and in the playlist policies of music radio and television. If other kinds of music—classical, jazz, easy listening, country, folk, etc.—are marketed as minority interests, rock defines the musical mainstream. And so over the last…

The new recording industry at the turn of the 20th century captured klezmer at this moment of bicultural creativity. Bands beefed up their staffing to project their sound and compensate for the limited acoustic possibilities of early sound recording. The clarinet, often backed by strong brass bass…

…assumptions, and hits that the record industry has treated as novelties have often turned out to be precursors of new musical styles.

…the new sheet music and phonograph industries and remained at the heart of European and American popular music throughout the 20th century not only in sales terms but as the pop form that has best expressed a public mood or emotion. It became normal for music hall, radio, and television…

From 1946 to 1958 the American music business was turned upside down by a group of mavericks who knew little about music but were fast learners about business. What they discovered was an expanding “market” of clubs and bars in each of which stood a…