From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart--even …
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing …
In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and …
Irving Berlin remains a central figure in American music, a lyricist/composer whose songs are loved all over the world. His first piece, "e;Marie from Sunny Italy,"e; was …
This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the …
This title provides a comprehensive survey of the British popular music industry and its audience in the age of the crooner and the dance band. The book examines the changes to …
Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history. Berlin was the …
Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "e;a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the …
Here, for the first time, is a book which analyses popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical, or political point of view. Peter van der Merwe has …
The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted it its entirety, each with a foreword by General …
