American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

Alec Wilder

ISBN 10: 0195019253 / ISBN 13: 9780195019254

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1975

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Synopsis :

...a notable and overdue contribution to our evaluation of Western music in the twentieth century.' The Times Literary Supplement .

Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : American Popular Song: The Great Innovators,...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 1975
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
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