Author: Michael A. Amundson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806156040
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918.Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
Talking Machine West
Author: Michael A. Amundson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806156040
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918.Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806156040
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918.Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
Talking Machine West
Author: Michael A. Amundson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
Pages from The Talking Machine World
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Talking Machine World Trade Directory
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1872
Book Description
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1872
Book Description
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
Annual Report
Author: USA Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Talking Machine World Trade Directory
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Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description