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The Irving Berlin Reader (Hardcover)
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The Irving Berlin Reader (Hardcover)
Series: Readers on American Musicians
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Without any formal training in music composition or even the
ability to notate melodies on a musical staff, Irving Berlin took a
knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting
career in American history. Berlin was the first Tin Pan Alley
songwriter to go "uptown" to Broadway with a complete musical score
(Watch Your Step in 1914); he is the only songwriter to build a
theater exclusively for his own work (The Music Box); and his name
appears above the title of his Broadway shows and Hollywood films
(iIrving Berlin's Holiday Inn), still a rare honor for songwriters.
Berlin is also notable due the length of his 90+ year career in
American Song; he sold his first song at the age of 8 in 1896, and
passed away in 1989 at the age of 101 having outlived several of
his own copyrights. Throughout his career, Berlin showed that a
popular song which appealed to the masses need not be of a lesser
quality than songs informed by the principles of "classical" music
composition. Forty years after his last published song many of his
songs remain popular and several have even entered folk song status
("White Christmas," "Easter Parade," and "God Bless America"),
something no other 20th-century American songwriter can claim. As
one of the most seminal figures of twentieth century, both in the
world of music and in American culture more generally, and as one
of the rare songwriters equally successful with popular songs,
Broadway shows, and Hollywood scores, Irving Berlin is the subject
of an enormous corpus of writing, scattered throughout countless
publications and archives. A noted performer and interpreter of
Berlin's works, Benjamin Sears has unprecedented familiarity with
these sources and brings together in this Reader a broad range of
the most insightful primary and secondary materials. Grouped
together according to the chronology of Berlin's life and work,
each section and article features a critical introduction to orient
the reader and contextualize the materials within the framework of
American musical history. Taken as a whole, they provide a new
perspective on Berlin that highlights his musical genius in the
context of his artistic development through a unique mix of
first-hand views of Berlin as an artist, critical assessments of
his work, and more general overviews of his life and work.
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