Great Men Of American Popular Song

Author : David Ewen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Men of American Popular Song written by David Ewen and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American popular song has undergone as many changes and developments as America herself. Here David Ewen explores the whole history and evolution of American popular music from 1746 to the present day. Through the biographies, personal portraits, and critical evaluations of thirty of its leading creators, the reader is given a perspective on how the American popular song developed over the years and gains an insight into the birth and evolution of the media (theater, radio, television, movies, etc.) in which these songs came into being. Within the biographies, such basic styles as the national ballad, the war song, ragtime songs, the blues, show tunes, movie tunes, and the songs of protest are described, while more than passing notice is given to the changing song lyric and the men who brought about this change. The result is a crisply-written, exceedingly knowledgeable work of encyclopedic scope and range that discusses and explains the currents and crosscurrents in the evolution of American popular music. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Alec Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195014457
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Song Edited and with an Introd. by James T. Maher written by Alec Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Ewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great men of American song written by David Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denes Agay
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760717295
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Loved Songs of the American People written by Denes Agay and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular songs sung by the American people from colonial days to our time are presented in chronological sequence. Includes words, music, and guitar chords.

Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442254491
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings written by Steve Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording

Author : David Ewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great men of America popular song written by David Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Ewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Men of American Popular Song written by David Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alec Wilder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093994X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Song written by Alec Wilder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--

Author : Michael Whorf
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490624
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Song Composers written by Michael Whorf and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, 39 of the legendary composers from Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and Broadway of the 1920s through the 1950s discuss their careers and share the stories of creating many of the most beloved songs in American music. Interviewed for radio in the mid-1970s, they include such giants as Harold Arlen, Eubie Blake, Cy Coleman, George Duning, Sammy Fain, Jerry Herman, Bronislaw Kaper, Henry Mancini, David Rose, Arthur Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Jule Styne, Jimmie Van Heusen, Harry Warren, Richard Whiting, and Meredith Willson. Photographs and rare sheet music reproductions accompany the interviews.

Author : Michael Whorf
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490616
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Song Lyricists written by Michael Whorf and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume (a companion to American Popular Song Composers), 39 leading American lyricists from the Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and Broadway of the 1920s to the 1960s discuss their careers and share the stories of creating many of the most beloved songs in American music. Interviewed for radio in the 1970s, they include such writing teams as Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, and such individuals as Harold Adamson, E.Y. Harburg, Gus Kahn, Leo Robin and Paul Francis Webster. Photographs and rare sheet music reproductions accompany the interviews.