Hype Machine, 1905

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…(in 1905) the humor magazine Puck satirized this rapid turnover in a series of ‘diary entries,’ written from the point of view of a popular song, recounting its creation, its plugging, its meteoric rise, and its precipitous descent into neglect–all in the span of five weeks.

David Suisman, “Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music” (previously)

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