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The Ballad in American Popular Music - From Elvis to Beyonce (Hardcover)
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The Ballad in American Popular Music - From Elvis to Beyonce (Hardcover)
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While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades,
this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these
treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles
of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years,
offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of
celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and
Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly
linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can
tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood
in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history.
Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre
from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume
is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life
in America.
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