This book explains the vigorous expansion of the music profession in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the widespread demand for lessons and the revolution in commercialized entertainment created new employment opportunities, and follows the profession through to its subsequent decline as changing leisure patterns, "talkies", and relentless improvements in recording technologies displaced both teachers and performers.
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This book explains the vigorous expansion of the music profession in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the widespread demand for lessons and the revolution in commercialized entertainment created new employment opportunities, and follows the profession through to its subsequent decline as changing leisure patterns, "talkies", and relentless improvements in recording technologies displaced both teachers and performers.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Poor. Cover has light scratches/marks/fading. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Textblock has foxing. Reading content is in very good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Social History.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered white at the spine. ISBN: 0198226659 Pages: 280 Very good indeed in slightly used and faded, very good dust jacket.
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VG (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. dustjacket edges tunned; taped to cover edges; ID to lower spine; scuffs to plastic. ) Navy boards w/ gilt spine printing. 269 pgs w/ bw plates. blue, illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. A few instances of pencil notations, marginalia, but, otherwise a clean, ex-college library copy.