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The American Songbook : Music for the Masses.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tempo: a Rowman and Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (165 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442242456
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The American SongbookDDC classification:
  • 782.421640973
LOC classification:
  • ML3477.V36 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Essentials of the American Songbook -- 2 Authors of the American Songbook -- 3 The American Songbook on Stage -- 4 The American Songbook on Screen -- 5 Jazz and the American Songbook -- 6 Interpreters of the American Songbook -- 7 The American Songbook in the 1950s and 1960s -- 8 The American Songbook Today -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Further Listening -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Essentials of the American Songbook -- 2 Authors of the American Songbook -- 3 The American Songbook on Stage -- 4 The American Songbook on Screen -- 5 Jazz and the American Songbook -- 6 Interpreters of the American Songbook -- 7 The American Songbook in the 1950s and 1960s -- 8 The American Songbook Today -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Further Listening -- Index -- About the Author.

The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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