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Supremely American
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Nicholas E. Tawa
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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This is a study of the way in which popular words and music relate to American life. The question of what popular song was, and why it came into existence, as w
Popular Song
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Alan Lewens
Categories: Popular music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

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A lavishly illustrated, in-depth look at 100 of the most influential popular songs of the 20th century, with information on the singers, songwriters and session
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Allen Forte
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hea
American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Russell Sanjek
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book is an abridgment of the third volume of American Popular Music and Its Business--The First Four Hundred Years by Russell Sanjek, my late father. It co