9780922233441-0922233446-Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

ISBN-13: 9780922233441
ISBN-10: 0922233446
Edition: First Edition
Author: Steve Young, Sport Murphy
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Blast Books
Format: Hardcover 252 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780922233441
ISBN-10: 0922233446
Edition: First Edition
Author: Steve Young, Sport Murphy
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Blast Books
Format: Hardcover 252 pages

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Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals (ISBN-13: 9780922233441 and ISBN-10: 0922233446), written by authors Steve Young, Sport Murphy, was published by Blast Books in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.14.

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From the 1950s to the 1980s, American corporations commissioned a vast array of lavish, Broadway-style musical shows that were only for the eyes and ears of employees. These improbable productions were meant to educate and motivate the sales force to sell cars, appliances, tractors, soda, and a thousand other products. Though most of these shows were lost to the universe, some were recorded and distributed to convention attendees via souvenir vinyl records. The little-known world of industrial shows is reconstructed through the record collection of author Steve Young, who has spent twenty years finding the extremely rare souvenir albums as well as tracking down and interviewing the writers and performers. Through the records themselves as well as behind-the-scenes stories, a new perspective on American history, culture, and business emerges. Eye-popping visuals, samples of confounding and hilarious lyrics, and witty commentary by Young and co-author Sport Murphy (who also contributes original artwork) bring the topic to vivid, astonishing life. A companion website will offer streaming audio of the songs which seem too crazy to be real—but not only are they real, they're often a revelation.

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