Jenness / Velsey Classic American Popular Song

The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-79744-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 406 Seiten

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenness, David

Velsey, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Classic Pop at Mid-Century
2. The Music Went Round and Round.
3. Late Flowering from Old Stock
4. Indian Summer of the Classic Popular Song
5. Re-Stocking the Songbook
6. The Land Where the Good Songs Go
7. Other Voices in Popular Song
8. Sondheim and After
Copyright Information
Index of Songs Cited
Index of Songwriters
Index of Other Names

Über Autor(innen)

David Jenness has performed as a pianist and singer, has been a music critic, and was president of the Kodaly Institute. As a historian of education, he is the author of Making Sense of Social Studies, among other works. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Donald Velsey is an architect by profession, and an amateur music historian. Beginning as a student at Yale and continuing thereafter, he has collected over 4000 American popular songs, many of them unpublished. He lives in Washington, DC.