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Love for Sale audiobook
- By: David Hajdu
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Category: History & Criticism, Music
- Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Love for Sale Audiobook Summary
From revered music critic David Hajdu comes a personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music.
David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place–not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the beginning of popular music–many songs were already popular–as it was the beginning of the popular music industry. And if he’s going to understand what his 45s meant to him, this is the place to start: the rise of Tin Pan Alley, of minstrelsy, of million-copy sellers and one-hit wonders, and of cultural arbiters decrying the baseness, simplicity, and signs of the end of times in popular music.
From there, Hajdu takes us on more unexpected routes through the history of pop music–back to Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of records … and to his grandmother’s collection of Italian crooners on shellac records that young Hajdu liberated from her New Jersey basement. And neither Italians nor New Jersey are incidental to his story–not just because of Frank Sinatra but because Hajdu’s mom, a waitress in a chrome-clad diner on Route 22, helped shape the fate of a budding young music critic by introducing him to one of the diner’s most prominent patrons, the writer of the timeless song “I’m from New Jersey.”
Love for Sale does ultimately spin through more familiar territory–the Cotton Club, the rise of radio, the battle of disco versus punk for the soul of New York as Hajdu made his chops as a critic, the rise of hip-hop, and the current atomization of the music landscape–but it is always with a unique, insightful, and eloquently presented point of view, as one would expect from one of our most celebrated music critics.
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Love for Sale Audiobook Narrator
George Newbern is the narrator of Love for Sale audiobook that was written by David Hajdu
George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Scandal, Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more. He is also known for providing the voice of Superman in Justice League and for narrating audiobooks.
About the Author(s) of Love for Sale
David Hajdu is the author of Love for Sale
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Love for Sale Full Details
| Narrator | George Newbern |
| Length | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Author | David Hajdu |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 19, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781504748148 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Love for Sale is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History & Criticism, Music
Additional info
The publisher of the Love for Sale is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504748148.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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