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A 31-part, 47-hour documentary series on the evolution of recorded popular music in the 20th Century, from the dawn of the ragtime era in 1899 (when sound recordings were a new commodity and sheet music outsold records for home piano consumption) to the start of 1972 (when recordings totaled more than two billion dollars in sales during that year).
Country: United States
Type: scripted
Language: English
Also Known As: Highlights of 20th Century Music: 1899-1972