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Download or read book Tin Pan Alley written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
Book Synopsis Subways Are for Sleeping by : Edmund G. Love
Download or read book Subways Are for Sleeping written by Edmund G. Love and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Songs of a Golden Age by : Elizabeth F. Sturtevant
Download or read book Songs of a Golden Age written by Elizabeth F. Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House That George Built by : Wilfrid Sheed
Download or read book The House That George Built written by Wilfrid Sheed and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed uncovered the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he’s crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that “tripled the world’s total supply of singable tunes.” It began when immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side heard black jazz and blues–and it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from “Always” to “Cheek to Cheek.” Berlin’s spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Possessed of a world-class ego, Gershwin was also generous, exciting, and utterly original. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “The Man I Love,” and “Love Is Here to Stay” are as tender and moving as ever. Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear “Georgia on My Mind” or “Mood Indigo” for the first time. The Golden Age of song sparked creative breakthroughs in both Broadway musicals and splashy Hollywood extravaganzas. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen. Popular music was, writes Sheed, “far and away our greatest contribution to the world’s art supply in the so-called American Century.” Sheed hung out with some of the great artists while they were still writing–and better than anyone, he knows great music, its shimmer, bite, and exuberance. Sparkling with wit, insight, and the grace notes of wonderful songs, The House That George Built is a heartfelt, intensely personal portrait of an unforgettable era. A delightfully charming, funny, and most illuminating portrait of songwriters and the Golden Age of American Popular Song. Mr. Sheed’s carefully chosen depictions and anecdotes recapture that amazingly creative period, a moment in time in which I was so fortunate to be surrounded by all that magic.” –Margaret Whiting
Book Synopsis Let's Face the Music by : Benny Green
Download or read book Let's Face the Music written by Benny Green and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll by : Richard Havers
Download or read book The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll written by Richard Havers and published by Book Sales Inc. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of blues music from its emergence in the early 1900s through the twentieth century, and describes the musical accomplishments of Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and others. Includes an audio CD.
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of Novelty Songs by : Steven Otfinoski
Download or read book The Golden Age of Novelty Songs written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes a fond look at one of music's most enduring and most eccentric genres. From their roots in the raucous rhymes 'n' rhythms of Louis Jordan and the inspired lunacy of Spike Jones in the Forties to the musical madness of "Weird Al" Yankovic in the Nineties, novelty songs have always provided a titter, a chuckle, a groan, or a barrel of laughs."
Book Synopsis Ukulele Heaven - Songs from the Golden Age of the Ukulele by : Ian Whitcomb
Download or read book Ukulele Heaven - Songs from the Golden Age of the Ukulele written by Ian Whitcomb and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful tribute to the ukulele and its leading advocates, past and present.Contains seventeen classics and eight new tunes as well as an in-depth historical essay illustrated with original sheet music covers. Classic selections include: Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula; Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?; All That I Ask of You Is Love; They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii; Sierra Sue; Any Time; Pasadena; Somebody Stole My Gal; Blue; and more. All tunes are shown with complete lyrics and chord diagrams. Includes a select discography of audio's featuring ukulele artists and a list of uke web sites. Most of the songs heard in the feature film Stanley's Gig (2000) starring Faye Dunaway can be found in this book. Includes access toonline audio
Download or read book Tin Pan Alley written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre by : Corinne J. Naden
Download or read book The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre written by Corinne J. Naden and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma! to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. Concentrating on a 22-year span, this book lists both commercial successes and flops of the Golden Age-when the musicals presented on Broadway showcased timeless, memorable tunes, sophisticated comedy, and the genius of creative artists like Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, George Abbott, Moss Hart, Angela Lansbury, Robert Preston, and many others.
Book Synopsis The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 by : Allen Forte
Download or read book The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 written by Allen Forte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Download or read book Nostalgia written by Tim Brown and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis SONGS OF A GOLDEN AGE & OTHER by : Elizabeth F. Sturtevant
Download or read book SONGS OF A GOLDEN AGE & OTHER written by Elizabeth F. Sturtevant and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Everything's Coming Up Profits by : Steve Young
Download or read book Everything's Coming Up Profits written by Steve Young and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known world of industrial shows is reconstructed through the record collection of author Steve Young, who has spent twenty years finding the extremely rare souvenir albums as well as tracking down and interviewing the writers and performers.
Download or read book Ukulele Heroes written by Ian Whitcomb and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful history of the ukulele, which is making a comeback, reveals how the uke came to the mainland United States from Hawaii and details the stage, screen and recording stars who pioneered the uke, including Johnny Marvin, Arthur Godfrey, Tessie O'Shea and Tiny Tim. Original.
Download or read book The boy friend written by Sandy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Old School Rap and Hip-hop by : Chris Woodstra
Download or read book Old School Rap and Hip-hop written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains brief reviews of over five hundred old school rap and hip-hop albums, as well as albums from the 1960s and 70s that provided inspiration for the development of rap; arranged alphabetically, some with cover art.
