Popular American Recording Pioneers

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings brought "popular" music into America's living rooms! Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into American homes the hits of the day -- Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, parlor ballads, early jazz, and dance music of all kinds. Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 provides a unique "who's who" approach to popular music history. It is the definitive work on the music that was popular during America's coming of age. No music historian should be without this volume.