The Business. A History of Popular Music from Music to Streaming - Simon Napier-Bell.

The Business describes the evolution of the music industry from its birth in the eighteenth century to the huge global market it has become today. Simon Napier-Bell explores how a formula for writing hits 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 established a template for all popular music that followed; and how rock tours became the biggest, quickest, sleaziest and most profitable ventures the industry had ever seen (paperback, new, approx 388 pages).