The business : a history of popular music from sheet music to streaming /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and indexes.Foreword -- Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay: The beginning of the music business -- Around and around: The beginning of records -- The song is you: Max Dreyfus -- Give my regards to Broadway: The American musical -- Alexander's ragtime band: Irving Berlin -- Stardust: Making it, 1910 style -- The winner takes it all: Pirating and other problems -- Pennies from heaven: ASCAP and PRS -- Pack up your troubles: First World War -- Cheek to cheek: Jazz and Jews -- Prohibition blues: Don't drink, dance -- I got rhythm: Black music goes mainstream -- On the radio: Wireless kills and rescues records -- Don't trust nobody: Pushy publishers, dodgy producers -- Let's do it: Special relationships -- Brother can you spare a dime?: Hollywood takes over -- Same old song and dance: British record companies re-align -- Set 'em up Joe: Booze makes a comeback -- Heard it all before: Music stagnates -- Trouble in mind: The war before the war -- New world coming: Second World War -- She wears red feathers: From Mitch Miller to rock 'n' roll -- Brothers in arms: The Erteguns -- Hound dog: Rock 'n' roll in black and white -- American pie: Country becomes mainstream -- Hallelujah: Payola -- Please please me: Britain comes to life -- The times they are a-changing: Albert Grossman -- Come together: Record companies re-group -- Shape of things to come: Rock without the roll -- We will rock you: Stadium tours and managers -- Light my fire: Executives behaving badly -- All around the world: GlobilityInto the groove: Disco -- Signed, sealed, delivered: Music publishing -- Shine on you crazy diamond: Michael Jackson and Madonna -- Money, money, money: Consolidation -- Fly me to the moon: Drugs and DJs -- Fuck tha police: Rap -- I'll be missing you: End of classical and EMI -- Mad about the boy: Boys and billions -- Everybody's doing it: Downloading -- I've got a great idea: New directions -- Where do we go from here?: Present and future -- Endword -- Cast of characters -- Songs in chapter titles -- Bibliography -- Index of quotations -- Index -- Supporters."First published by Unbound as Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay in 2014"--Title page verso."Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside the (dodgy) world of popular music - not just a creative industry, but a business that has made people rich beyond their wildest dreams. This book describes the evolution of the music industry from 1713 - the year parliament granted writers ownership over what they wrote - to today, when a global, 100 billion pound industry is controlled by just three major players: Sony, Universal and Warner. Inside you will uncover some little-known facts about the industry, including: how a formula for writing hit songs in the 1900s helped create 50,000 of the best-known songs of all time; 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. Through it all, Napier-Bell balances seductive anecdotes - pulling back the curtain on the gritty and absurd side of the industry - with an insightful exploration of the relationship between creativity and money."--Publisher marketing.