This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form.
Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows how the American style was incorporated into mainstream popular music and developed into the brilliantly inventive, and often musically subtle, crowd-pleasers of Kern, Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers.
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Alec Wilder: deceased. Composer of songs, chamber music, and film scores.
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardback. Etat : Fair. When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music. It has since become the standard work of the great songwriters who dominated popular music in the United States for half a century. Now Wilder's classic is available again, with a new introduction by Gene Lees.Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, American Popular Song focuses on the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and have made it an authentic art form. Wilder traces the roots of the American style to the ragtime music of the 1890s, shows how it was incorporated into mainstream popular music after 1900, and then surveys the careers of every major songwriter from World War I to 1950. Wilder devotes desparate chapters to such greats as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen. Illustrated with over seven hundred musical examples, Wilder's sensitive analyses of the most distinctive, creative, and original songs of this period reveal unexpected beauties in songs long forgotten and delightful subtleties in many familiar standards. The result is a definitive treatment of a strangely unsung and uniquely American art. N° de réf. du vendeur 00107205704
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Vendeur : Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Tight binding. Unmarked. Two pages have moisture wrinkling (possibly coffee spill). Black boards good. DJ good. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000373122
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Vendeur : Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : very good(-). xxxix + 536 pages, 8ovo, red cloth (rubbed and bumped at corners, with some wear along bottom edges). New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. A very good (-)copy lacking dust wrapper. N° de réf. du vendeur 337850
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Vendeur : Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
hardcover. Etat : Good. N° de réf. du vendeur FORT973296
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Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR004421795
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Vendeur : Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book has a slight bow to front cover, faint smudges to textblocks, light scuffs to edges and tips of corners. otherwise in very good condition, tight binding, clean and unmarked text with crisp pages; some cosmetic wear but an overall sturdy copy. Dust jacket has light rubbing and smudging to front and back, tiny tears to outer edge of front side, light wear to top and bottom edges, red sticker to bottom of back side. in very good condition, now in archival cover. N° de réf. du vendeur 971842
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Vendeur : Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. history BCE; First Printing. Book nd DJ New. Only defects, owner inscription at 1st page and a clipped DJ, else Mint. ; 536 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 30029
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Vendeur : Zephyr Books LLC, Reno, NV, Etats-Unis
Etat : Near Fine. weight: 2.0 lb. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and with and introduction by James T. Maher. Foreword by Gene Lees. 23.5x16 cm. xxxix, 536 pp. Quarter black cloth over black boards, red foil spine title. N° de réf. du vendeur 292153
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Vendeur : Any Amount of Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. 8 vo. Pp: xxxix, 536. ISBN: 9780195014457. Reprint of book first published in 1972, with new foreword by Gene Lees. Black laminated boards. Very good. Some very light marks to edge of paper block, and outline of price sticker on back cover, but books remains in excellent condition. N° de réf. du vendeur C63729
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Vendeur : Jenhams Books, Dundee, Royaume-Uni
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1973 printing. A hardback volume in Very Good condition, in a Good dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000161326
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