Lecture on Commercial Revolution in American Music at Hagley

“Music fills our homes, stores, restaurants, and indeed almost every public place,” commented event organizer Dr. Roger Horowitz. “David Suisman’s book, and lecture, will offer a fascinating exploration of how this revolution in everyday life took place.”

Hagley Museum and Library welcomes 2010 Hagley Prize Winner Dr. David Suisman to speak about his recent book, Selling Sounds: the Commercial Revolution in American Music in the Hagley Soda House auditorium. Dr. Suisman, professor of history at the University of Delaware, will discuss the rise of the commercial music industry and the evolution of modern musical culture. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and to be signed by the author.

Selling Sounds: the Commercial Revolution in American Music has received multiple awards and honors, including the 2010 Hagley prize for the best book in music history from the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference.

What: Hagley Prize Winner Gives Lecture on Commercial Revolution in American Music
Where: Hagley Soda House auditorium
When: Wednesday, May 2, at 7 p.m.
Cost: The lecture is free. Registration requested. Call (302) 658-2400, ext. 243.

Dr. Suisman earned his B.A. at Yale University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Delaware where he teaches courses on cultural history, music and sound, and consumer capitalism in the United States. Along with Selling Sounds, Suisman also co-edited the book Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, a volume in the “Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture” series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dr. Suisman used the collections of Hagley Library to research Selling Sounds: the Commercial Revolution in American Music. The Hagley Library is the nation’s leading business history library, archives, and research center. Current holdings comprise 36,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, 290,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department, 2 million visual items in the Pictorial Department, and more than 100,000 digital images and pages in the Digital Archives Department. Hagley’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society offers conferences, research seminars, and a public lecture series, and operates a research grant program.

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org

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