Author: Larry Starr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195108545
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Larry Starr
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN: 0077414985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Rachel Rubin
Publisher: Amherst [MA] : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the 20th century - the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, 11 essays explore a variety of popular musical genres, including Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, rap, and Mexican American corridos. Reading these essays, we come to see that the forms created by one group often appeal to, and are in turn influenced by, other groups - across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region and age.

Author: Josh Kun
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195300529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Larry Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190632991
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete, colorful, and authoritative introduction of its kind. In the fifth edition of their best-selling text, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman provide a unique combination of cultural and social history with the analytical study of musical styles.

Author: David Ewen
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780130224422
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Surveys the history of all categories of American popular music from colonial times to the present, with information on the music, composers, performers, and entrepreneurs.

Author: Richard Carlin
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816069786
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of folk music.

Author: Alec Wilder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195014457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Glenn Appell
Publisher: Schirmer Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Appell (jazz studies, Diablo Valley College) and Hemphill (graduate studies, research, and development, San Francisco State University) offer a textbook for popular music, humanities, or cultural studies courses, organized by the musical influences of particular cultural groups--African American, European American, Latin, Native American and Asian--rather than a strict chronological approach. This is followed by a section tracing modern jazz to hip hop. They survey a broad range of styles, from minstrelsy, blues, hymns, and wind bands to Chicano music, Afro-Caribbean music, bebop, acid jazz, girl groups, folk-rock, the British invasion, R&B, and rock.

Author: Allen Forte
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133359
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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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”