
American Popular Song
The Great Innovators 1900-1950
Alec Wilder(Author)
James T. Maher(Editor)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 21. September 1972
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-19-501445-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
music examples throughout
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1081 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-501445-7 (9780195014457)
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Persons
Alec Wilder: deceased. Composer of songs, chamber music, and film scores.