| Author | : David Jenness |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2014-02-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136797453 |
| Pages | : 406 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (367 users) |
Download or read book Classic American Popular Song written by David Jenness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Allen Forte |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Release Date | : 2008-10-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780300133356 |
| Pages | : 235 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (1 users) |
Download or read book Listening to Classic American Popular Songs written by Allen Forte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and many others, along with such lyricists as Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Dorothy Fields, produced extraordinary songs of signal importance to the American musical heritage. In this book Allen Forte shares his love of American popular song. He discusses in detail twenty-three songs, ranging from Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924) to Irving Berlin’s “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” (1947), guiding readers and listeners toward a deeper appreciation of this vital and engaging music. Forte writes for the general reader, assuming no background other than a familiarity with basic music notation. Each song is discussed individually and includes complete lyrics and simple leadsheet notation. Forte discusses the songs’ distinctive musical features and their sophisticated, often touching and witty lyrics. Readers can follow the music while they listen to the accompanying compact disc, which was specially recorded for this volume by baritone Richard Lalli and pianist-arranger Gary Chapman, with Allen Forte, pianist-arranger for “Embraceable You” and “Come Rain or Come Shine”. Learn about these favorite songs and more: “How Long Has This Been Going On?” “What Is This Thing Called Love?” “Embraceable You” “Autumn in New York” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” “The Nearness of You” “That Old Black Magic” “Come Rain or Come Shine”
| Author | : Alec Wilder |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2022 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780190939946 |
| Pages | : 577 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (99 users) |
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 | : David Jenness |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0415970563 |
| Pages | : 385 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (75 users) |
Download or read book Classic American Popular Song written by David Jenness and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the so-called "Age of Melancholy," many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods.
| Author | : Michael Dunne |
| Publisher | : Popular Press |
| Release Date | : 2001 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0879728477 |
| Pages | : 248 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (284 users) |
Download or read book Intertextual Encounters in American Fiction Film and Popular Culture written by Michael Dunne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertextual encounters occur whenever an author or the author's text recognizes, references, alludes to, imitates, parodies, or otherwise elicits an audience member's familiarity with other texts. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West use the fiction of Horatio Alger, Jr., as an intertext in their novels, The Great Gatsby and A Cool Million. Callie Khouri and Ridley Scott use the buddy-road-picture genre as an intertext for their Thelma and Louise. In all these cases, intertextual encounters take place between artists, between texts, between texts and audiences, between artists and audiences. Michael Dunne investigates works from the 1830s to the 1990s and from the canonical American novel to Bugs Bunny and Jerry Seinfeld.
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| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1897 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:39015023900056 |
| Pages | : 996 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 users) |
Download or read book Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : David Ewen |
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
| Release Date | : 1972 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:49015002905173 |
| Pages | : 424 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (91 users) |
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 | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1896 |
| ISBN 10 | : WISC:89063017842 |
| Pages | : 582 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (89 users) |
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Philip Furia |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2016 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780199391882 |
| Pages | : 279 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (993 users) |
Download or read book The American Song Book written by Philip Furia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music, including covers, of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, and other lyricists and composers of what has been called the "Golden Age" of American popular music. These songs have done what popular songs are not supposed to do--stayed popular ... As such, these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet music for these classic songs, authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley, the emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway, and the 'talkie' revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors also provide biographical sketches of songwriters, performers, and impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition, they analyze the lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes, sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant, about how the songs were created. The American Songbook is a book that can be read for enjoyment on its own or be propped on the piano to be played and sung"--Back cover.
| Author | : Arnold Shaw |
| Publisher | : New York : Schirmer Books |
| Release Date | : 1986 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:39015010608746 |
| Pages | : 416 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 users) |
Download or read book Black Popular Music in America written by Arnold Shaw and published by New York : Schirmer Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Shaw correctly states, no single volume covers the history of black popular music in its entirety, and most studies have focused on the white mainstream. American pop music is in fact a blend of black and white musical influences that can be better understood if explored from a black perspective. Shaw examines five key black stylesminstrelsy, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, and bluesanalyzing the origins and developments of each, profiling important artists and songs, and exploring the "white synthesis." Often the "synthesis" has amounted to little more than a soulless white imitation of inspired black stylistic innovations.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:39015047982247 |
| Pages | : 598 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 users) |
Download or read book Classic CD written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Larry N. Landrum |
| Publisher | : Gale / Cengage Learning |
| Release Date | : 1982 |
| ISBN 10 | : IND:39000005645382 |
| Pages | : 466 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (9 users) |
Download or read book American Popular Culture written by Larry N. Landrum and published by Gale / Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1982 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : David Lee Joyner |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
| Release Date | : 1993 |
| ISBN 10 | : IND:30000041119292 |
| Pages | : 360 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 ( users) |
Download or read book American Popular Music written by David Lee Joyner and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of American music from Tin Pan Alley song through the close of the 20th century.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2001 |
| ISBN 10 | : UCSD:31822031631542 |
| Pages | : 504 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (318 users) |
Download or read book Chamber Music written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Tom Piazza |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : STANFORD:36105126884977 |
| Pages | : 234 pages |
| Rating | : 4.F/5 ( users) |
Download or read book Understanding Jazz written by Tom Piazza and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than just another history of this vital music and those who play it, Understanding Jazz is a multimedia master class and late-night jam session rolled into one-an indispensable guide to a deeper appreciation of jazz.
| Author | : Allen Forte |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2004-03-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0756775949 |
| Pages | : 219 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (759 users) |
Download or read book Listening To Classic American Popular Songs written by Allen Forte and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 20s, 30s, & 40s, American songwriters & lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, & many others, along with such lyricists as Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, & Dorothy Fields, produced songs of importance to the American musical heritage. This book discusses in detail 23 songs, guiding readers & listeners toward a deeper appreciation of this vital music. Each song is discussed individually & includes complete lyrics & simple leadsheet. Readers can follow the music while they listen to the accompanying CD, with 27 songs which were specially recorded for this volume.
| Author | : Max Wilk |
| Publisher | : Easton Studio Press, LLC |
| Release Date | : 2011-06-21 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781935212591 |
| Pages | : 388 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (352 users) |
Download or read book They re Playing Our Song written by Max Wilk and published by Easton Studio Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award , reprinted and revised several times since, They're Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th Century, original, classic and timeless songs and lyrics as popular today as ever.
