American Songbook (eBook)

Music for the Masses

Ann van der Merwe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
164 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4245-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.

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With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American popular standards have proven to be among the most widely performed and enjoyed songs of the past century. Shaped in many ways by the technological and cultural developments of the early twentieth century, they have also managed to transcend these origins and become an enduring part of the American musical landscape.Ann van der Merwe explores how and why American songbook standards developed in the early twentieth century and how these standards have shaped Americanand even globalmusical culture ever since. The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual songs, including the musical and lyrical reasons for their broad appeal and applicability over the years.The American songbook continues to permeate the fabric of our daily lives. It is a repertoire that spans generations, from Fred Astaire to Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. As a result, music lovers both young and old will enjoy discovering how these beloved songs emerged and why they remain relevant a century later.

Autor

Ann van der Merwe has taught in the music departments of Miami University andOhio State University. She is the author of The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song (Scarecrow Press, 2009) and has contributed entries to the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Her research has also been published in Music and the Moving Image and Studies in Musical Theatre, and she appeared in the 2000 national tour of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Essentials of the American SongbookChapter 2: Authors of the American SongbookChapter 3: The American Songbook on StageChapter 4: The American Songbook on ScreenChapter 5: Jazz and the American SongbookChapter 6: Interpreters of the American SongbookChapter 7: The American Songbook in the 1950s and 1960sChapter 8: The American Songbook TodayEpilogue: Amateurs and the American SongbookFurther ListeningFurther Reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 20th century music • American History • American Music • American musicians • history of music • how to sing • Jazz • Jazz Clubs • lounge singing • music history and criticism • Pop culture • record player • Singers
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4245-0 / 1442242450
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4245-6 / 9781442242456