- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (5 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199254079
- ISBN-13: 978-0199254071
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 946,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Different aspects of popular music are analysed in an academic but readable manner."
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Nott provides an excellent account of the technology and commercial development of the gramophone, radio and cinema. (Cultural and Social History )
This is an important contribution to interwar history and its popular culture. (Cultural and Social History )
Historians have generally not given music the attention that they have been prepared to allow to literature and fine art. Reading books of this quality might finally make them realise just how much they have been missing. (Social History Society Bulletin )
[Nott] is at his best when writing the socio-economic history of music, showing a good eye for significant data, industrial imperatives and patterns of change over time. He is particularly good on the gramophone industry as it attempted to build an image of respectability while also remaining attuned to the demands of the marketplace, and produces one of the best accounts to date of the workings of European and Irish-based commercial radio. (Social History Society Bulletin )
... excellently researched and constantly thoughtful. (Social History Society Bulletin )
Mechanization, commercialization, Americanization, standardization--such are the governing themes of James J. Nott's fascinating, scholarly account of the popular music industry in Britain between the wars. (Paul Smith, Times Literary Supplement )
... a clear, well-researched and entertaining volume. (Matthew Hilton, English Historical Review )
Nott should be congratulated for a work that runs from the comedy of George Formby, the musicals of Jessie Matthews, the swing of Benny Goodman, and the star status of dance band leaders such as Jack Hylton, Henry Hall, and Jack Payne. This is a fine, scholarly monograph and the author demonstrates a clarity of expression throughout. Such a comprehensive account of inter-war commercial music deserves a long shelf life among studies of twentieth-century popular culture. (Matthew Hilton, English Historical Review )
This academic but readable book will fascinate the enthusiast and social historian alike ... for those seriously interested in the analysis of popular music it is a must. (Journal Into Melody )
Different aspects of popular music are analysed in an academic but readable manner. (This England )
This is an important contribution to interwar history and its popular culture. (Cultural and Social History )
Historians have generally not given music the attention that they have been prepared to allow to literature and fine art. Reading books of this quality might finally make them realise just how much they have been missing. (Social History Society Bulletin )
[Nott] is at his best when writing the socio-economic history of music, showing a good eye for significant data, industrial imperatives and patterns of change over time. He is particularly good on the gramophone industry as it attempted to build an image of respectability while also remaining attuned to the demands of the marketplace, and produces one of the best accounts to date of the workings of European and Irish-based commercial radio. (Social History Society Bulletin )
... excellently researched and constantly thoughtful. (Social History Society Bulletin )
Mechanization, commercialization, Americanization, standardization--such are the governing themes of James J. Nott's fascinating, scholarly account of the popular music industry in Britain between the wars. (Paul Smith, Times Literary Supplement )
... a clear, well-researched and entertaining volume. (Matthew Hilton, English Historical Review )
Nott should be congratulated for a work that runs from the comedy of George Formby, the musicals of Jessie Matthews, the swing of Benny Goodman, and the star status of dance band leaders such as Jack Hylton, Henry Hall, and Jack Payne. This is a fine, scholarly monograph and the author demonstrates a clarity of expression throughout. Such a comprehensive account of inter-war commercial music deserves a long shelf life among studies of twentieth-century popular culture. (Matthew Hilton, English Historical Review )
This academic but readable book will fascinate the enthusiast and social historian alike ... for those seriously interested in the analysis of popular music it is a must. (Journal Into Melody )
Different aspects of popular music are analysed in an academic but readable manner. (This England )
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The gramophone and gramophone records were one of the most popular forms of entertainment for an increasing number of people during the interwar period. Read the first page
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