American Popular Song
The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 April 2022
- ISBN 9780190939946
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 241x159x35 mm
- Weight 930 g
- Language English 250
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Short description:
Hailed as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music, this essential book is now brought fully up-to-date in a third edition by popular music scholar Robert Rawlins, just in time for the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Both skillfully analytical and engagingly informal, American Popular Song examines the musical qualities that created a uniquely American art form.
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"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel.
When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading for countless musicians, lovers of American Song, and fans of Alec Wilder.
Now, in a 50th anniversary edition, popular music scholar Robert Rawlins brings the book fully up-to-date for the 21st century. Whereas previous editions featured only piano scores, the format has been changed to lead sheet notation with lyrics, making it accessible to a wider readership. Rawlins has also added more than sixty music examples to help complete the chapter on Irving Berlin.
One of the most fascinating features of the original edition was Wilder's inventive use of language, often revealing his strong and sometimes irreverent opinions. Wilder's prose remains relatively unaltered, but footnotes have been provided that clarify, elucidate, and even correct. Moreover, a new chapter has been added, discussing fifty-three songs by numerous composers that Wilder might have well included but was not able to. Songs by Ann Ronnell, Fats Waller, Jule Styne and many others are capped off with an examination of ten of Wilder's own songs.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Robert Rawlins
1. The Transition Era: 1885 to World War I
2. Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
3. Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
4. George Gershwin (1898-1937)
5. Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
6. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
7. Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
8. Vincent Youmans (1898-1946) and Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984)
9. Burton Lane (1912- 1997), Hugh Martin (1914-2011), and Vernon Duke (1903-1969)
10. The Great Craftsmen
Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)
Harry Warren (1893-1981)
Isham Jones (1894-1956)
Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Fred Ahlert (1892-1953)
Richard Whiting (1891-1938)
Ray Noble (1907-1978)
John Green (1908-1989)
Rube Bloom (1902-1976)
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
11. Outstanding Individual Songs: 1920 to 1950
12. Additional Songs and Composers
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