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Some great books and Magazines on Vaudeville, Burlesque, Music Hall and the FolliesClick on this link for more Theater and Vaudeville Books!Click on this link for more Radio Television and Broadcasting Magazines and Books!American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 1st Editionby Alec Wilder (Author), James T. Maher (Editor), Gene Lees (Foreword)When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music. It has since become the standard work of the great songwriters who dominated popular music in the United States for half a century. Now Wilder's classic is available again, with a new introduction by Gene Lees.Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, American Popular Song focuses on the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and have made it an authentic art form. Wilder traces the roots of the American style to the ragtime music of the 1890s, shows how it was incorporated into mainstream popular music after 1900, and then surveys the careers of every major songwriter from World War I to 1950. Wilder devotes desparate chapters to such greats as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen. Illustrated with over seven hundred musical examples, Wilder's sensitive analyses of the most distinctive, creative, and original songs of this period reveal unexpected beauties in songs long forgotten and delightful subtleties in many familiar standards. The result is a definitive treatment of a strangely unsung and uniquely American art.Review"The first serious and most valuable study of American popular music....Provocative, informative, opinionated, and never dull."?Down Beat"An invaluable and pioneering book....[Wilder] examines with wit and grace some eight hundred of the three hundred thousand American songs published in the first half of the century....A fair, positive, erudite celebration of American songwriting."?Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker"An entrancing volume that will bring special pleasure to everyone with a comprehensive record library."?Music JournalProduct detailsPublisher ? : ? Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 27, 1975)Language ? : ? EnglishPaperback ? : ? 576 pagesDimensions ? : ? 6 x 0.75 x 9 inchesFirst Edition 1975 by Oxford University Press Paperback. Size 6x9" 576 pages w numerous musical notationsCONDITION VERY GOODBook in close to new condition with slight wear to covers . 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Price: 39.99 USD
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Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, Alec Wilder, James T. Maher, Gene Lees
Format: Book
Release Title: American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
Genre: Comedy, Soundtracks & Musicals, Spoken Word
Record Label: Oxford University Press
Record Size: 10"
Style: Animation Score/Soundtrack, Chanson, Comedy/Novelty Music, Educational, Field Recording, Film Score/Soundtrack, Interview/Dialogue, Minstrel, Monolog, Music Hall, Musical/Original Cast, Natural Sounds, Poetry, Prayers/Sermons, Radio Play/Show, Schlager, Special Effects, Speech, Stand-Up/Sketch, Storytelling, Vocal, Work Song, Big Band/Swing, Cabaret/Vaudeville, Drama, Political/Conscious, Public Service Announcement, Story, TV Score/Soundtrack
Speed: 78 RPM
Language: English