[PDF] Popular Songs Of The Twentieth Century eBook

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Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Music
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Presents Top 20 music charts for the period and data on each song. Numerical chart ratings are approximate, based on sources that largely contained only prose or qualitative information about the songs of the day. Section I is an index of charted songs, and Section II contains month-by-month song charts. Section III breaks monthly charts into semi-monthly intervals and shows the chart activity of songs from a more detailed viewpoint. Section IV contains complete details for every song mentioned, with information on title, rank for the year, publisher at the time of popularity, publication date, and the month, year, and rank when peak popularity was attained, plus writers of the song and artists connected with the song, and shows or movies in which the song was featured. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810852952

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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 well as how each song fitted within the context of the larger 20th century society are considered and explained clearly and fruitfully. The author also offers insight into why musical styles were seen to change as they did during this time period.

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0312873905

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Rates the best of the twentieth century's art and pop culture, while accompanying essays provide commentary on the way art and performance influences the public and modern world.

Author : William Emmett Studwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 9781560230298

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The Popular Song Reader contains over 200 short essays on a wide variety of twentieth-century American popular songs. The witty and knowledgeable essays touch upon several hundred traditional style pop songs as well as early rock compositions. The essays are filled with anecdotes, humor, irony, and even poetry that reflect the author's offbeat and somewhat irreverent manner, while also presenting a broad spectrum of American popular songs in their historical and cultural contexts. In addition to information about each song and its composer, the author also discusses how the song reflected society at the time and also how the song itself has influenced popular culture. Pop music fans will find this a highly entertaining and readable guide to the best American popular music of the twentieth century.

Author : Brian Ariel
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
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ISBN : 9781907953149

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"Songs of the 20th Century" is a reference book for anyone interested in American popular song in particular, and song-writing in the 20th century. It offers a comprehensive guide to the composers and lyricists behind best-loved standards, as well as information on more obscure pieces.

Author : Richard D. Barnet
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : History
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A discussion of 15 influential songs from each decade provides the songs' histories, what inspired the writers to create them, and why they have resonated over time.

Author : Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
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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 covers the years 1900 to 1984, a rich and provocative period in the history of American entertainment, one marked by persistent technological innovation, an expansion of markets, the refinement of techniques of commercial exploitation, and the ongoing democratization of American culture.

Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810882965

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From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.