American Popular Song - The Great Innovators 1900-1950 (Hardcover, Reissue)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1972
First published:	April 1972
Authors:	Alec Wilder
Editors:	James T. Maher
Foreword by:	Gene Lees
Dimensions:	237 x 160 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	544
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-501445-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Other types of music > Light orchestral, dance & big band music Books > Music > Other types of music > Light orchestral, dance & big band music
LSN:	0-19-501445-6
Barcode:	9780195014457

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