How Music Got Free by Stephen Richard Witt

Alas, not only does she have a fiancé hand-picked by her father back in Mexico, but her expressiveness has earned her a less-than-serious reputation. The eldest daughter, Ana María, quickly finds herself attracted to a stoic, serious member of Parliament named Gideon Fox. With their controlling father an ocean away, the young women are free to make their own choices and bond as siblings and friends - while navigating all the temptations and microaggressions of high society. It begins in 1862, when the second French intervention in Mexico sends the three wealthy Luna sisters fleeing to the safety of their uncle’s house in London. It’s a bit like trying to rebuild a runner’s knee while they finish a four-minute mile: painful and audacious and exhilarating, all at once.įor a gentler take on subverting familiar romance forms, try the first volume in Liana De la Rosa’s new historical series, ANA MARÍA AND THE FOX (Berkley, 352 pp., paperback, $17). This romance does not simply build a love story it transforms one from the inside out. There are years of deflected conflicts roiling the pages - along with devotion, vulnerability and the kind of desperate pining that turns a reader absolutely feral. In short, these hockey men need therapy, as well as love. And the industry imploded.For Nisha, it means: “I’ve been in passionate love with you and our other best friend for years - now he’s happily engaged, and knowing you’re starting to look for someone too has me binge-drinking until all I can hear is my abusive parents’ voices telling me I deserve to be alone forever.” How suddenly all the tracks ever recorded could be accessed by anyone, for free. How the fate of artists like Kanye West, Jay-Z and 50 Cent were being controlled by a guy no one had ever heard of. This is also the story of the music industry – the rise of rap, the death of the album, and how much can rest on the flip of a coin. Then pans from the multi-million-dollar deals of the music industry to the darkest corners of the web from German audio laboratories to a tiny Polynesian radio station.

It begins with a small-time thief at a CD-pressing plant, and a groundbreaking invention on the other side of the globe. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful exec in the music business, and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes.

A story of visionaries, criminals and tycoons. How Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and obscene money. And meet Karlheinz – the man who made it all possible

How Music Got Free by Stephen Richard Witt