LOVE FOR SALE

A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticFrom the age of so ng sheets in the late nineteenth-century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential labor atory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time.In Love for Sale, David Hajdu?one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time?draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show h ow pop ha...[Read more]