For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country.
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...
United States Popular Music Collection, 1900-1920; 1920-1940; 19411945. INTERVIEWS Margarethe R. Bartholomew, Natchitoches, La., 20 April 1994. Billy Harrington, Natchitoches, La., 30 May 1994. MUSIC LYRICS Adair, Tom, and Dick Hull.
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll.
Best known as the writer of the lyric for the popular Disney song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" as well as the American standard "Willow Weep for Me," Ann Ronell was also a translator and orchestrator for operatic works.
Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Vol. 18. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 682–83. Bordman, Gerald. American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Cox, Karen L. Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in ...
Many books have been written about Tin Pan Alley--the colloquial name assigned to popular music before the advent of rock 'n' roll--yet little is available about the individual songs defining...
Drawing on previously untapped archival sources and on scores of interviews - the voices include Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert - the book illuminates broad musical trends through a series of intertwined stories.
In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley Philip Furia offers a unique new perspective on these great songwriters, showing how their poetic lyrics were as important as their brilliant music in shaping a golden age of American popular song.
This book analyzes the place of popular music in American culture from 1866 to 1910, and the way in which it reflected American values. Tawa has examined over 1000 songs,...