David Jenness, Donald Velsey

Classic American Popular Song

The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An excellent and much-needed contribution to the literature of American popular song"-Phil Furia, author of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, University of North Carolina ? Answers the question: What's happened to American popular song since World War II? Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 addresses the question: "What happened to American popular song after 1950?" There are numerous books available on the so-called "Golden Age" of popular song, but none that follow the development of popular song styles in the second half of the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780415970563
• ISBN-10: 0415970563
• Artikelnr.: 22104665

Autorenporträt

David Jenness has performed as a pianist and singer, has been a music critic, and was president of the Kodaly Institute. As a historian of education, he is the author of Making Sense of Social Studies, among other works. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Donald Velsey is an architect by profession, and an amateur music historian. Beginning as a student at Yale and continuing thereafter, he has collected over 4000 American popular songs, many of them unpublished. He lives in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Classic Pop at Mid-Century 2. The Music Went Round and
Round . . . 3. Late Flowering from Old Stock 4. Indian Summer of the
Classic Popular Song 5. Re-Stocking the Songbook 6. The Land Where the Good
Songs Go 7. Other Voices in Popular Song 8. Sondheim and After Copyright
Information Index of Songs Cited Index of Songwriters Index of Other Names