INVENTING ENTERTAINMENT: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry
The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It was a moving force in American music and American life. Illus.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 205
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742561274
Item #: 7987781
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