+RSS
 
 

Monthly Archives: August 2010


Hype Machine, 1905

Monday, August 2, 2010

Back soon, until then:
…(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 [...]