The commodification of music at the dawn of the era of "Mechanical music"

Ethnomusicology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-305

  Taylor, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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