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Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines - American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide (Hardcover, New)
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Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines - American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide (Hardcover, New)
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In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique
collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical
compositions related to the Philippines during the American
colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh surveyed a
wide array of sources: published songs listed in WorldCat, online
catalogs of sheet music collections of university libraries and
major public and private research libraries, bibliographic
compilations of popular music, periodical literature on music and
popular culture, published collections of "soldier songs," and
sheet music listed for sale on commercial auction websites. The
guide also identifies from song registrations in the U.S. Copyright
Office's Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) forty-eight years of
musical compositions relating to the Philippines. By systematically
going through the CCE, year by year, Walsh discovered hundreds of
unpublished songs written by average Americans expressing their
varied views about historical events and personal experiences in
America's faraway Southeast Asian colony. Although most of the
chronologically listed songs will be new to scholars and students,
songs like "Ma Little Cebu Maid," "My Own Manila Sue," "My
Fillipino Belle," "Down on the Philippine Isles," "Beside the Pasig
River," "My Philippino Pearl," and "I Want a Filipino Man" were all
published and widely promoted by Tin Pan Alley, as well as
performed on stage, and listened to on records and piano rolls
across America. The lyrics often illustrate popular American
attitudes, from shrilly patriotic numbers about the Battle of
Manila Bay and the later Fall of Bataan and Corregidor to wistful,
romantic, and even charming reminiscences of happy days spent in
"old" Manila to racially charged pieces rife with deprecating
stereotypes of Filipinos. The book reprints a number of
hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the
first time in more than a century. It also provides copyright
registration numbers and dates of registration for many published
and unpublished songs. Finally, more than 700 notes on particular
songs and numerous links provide direct access to bibliographic
records or digital copies of sheet music in libraries and
collections. Exhaustive in scope, Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of American
history, Pacific studies, popular culture, and ethnomusicology.
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