Hit Songs 1900 1955

Author : Don Tyler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786429462

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Hit Songs, 1900-1955 by Don Tyler Pdf

This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described, including vital information such as song origin, artist(s), and chart information. For many songs, the author includes any web or library holdings of sheet music covers, musical scores, and free audio files. An extensive collection of biographical sketches follows, providing performing credits, relevant professional awards, and brief biographies for hundreds of the era's most popular performers, lyricists, and composers. Includes an alphabetical song index and bibliography.

Author : Wayne Cottrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780578472430

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Top Popular Music of the Early 20th Century: 1900 - 1949 -- Rankings, Artists & Links by Wayne Cottrell Pdf

This book features by-decade rankings of music singles and albums, in six different genres, covering the first half of the 20th century. The decade of the 1890s is also included. The rankings pertain to U.S. music charts, wherein a typical week's chart would be based on sales, radio airplays, jukebox plays, and-or a combination of one or more of these. The genres include children's, classical, country, instrumental, popular, and rhythm & blues music. Short biographies on a selection of artists are located throughout the book. The artists index includes some vital statistics.

Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442254497

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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings by Steve Sullivan Pdf

This masterful survey covers all genres of popular music, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Billboard Adult Contemporary Number-one Singles by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Don Tyler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440839979

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Music of the First World War by Don Tyler Pdf

This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War. Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I? What role did music—ranging from classical to theater music, rags, and early jazz—play on the American homefront? Music of the First World War explores the tremendous importance of music during the years of the Great War—when communication technologies were extremely limited and music often took the place of connecting directly with loved ones or reminiscing via recorded images. The book's chapters cover music's contribution to the war effort; the variety of war-related songs, popular hits, and top recording artists of the war years; the music of Broadway shows and other theater productions; and important composers and lyricists. The author also explores the development of the fledgling recording industry at this time.

Author : Don Tyler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313341922

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Music of the Postwar Era by Don Tyler Pdf

At the end of WWII, themes in music shifted from soldiers' experiences at war to coming home, marrying their sweethearts, and returning to civilian life. The music itself also shifted, with crooners such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra replacing the Big Bands of years past. Country music, jazz, and gospel continued to evolve, and rhythm and blues and the new rock and roll were also popular during this time. Music is not created without being influenced by the political events and societal changes of its time, and the Music of the Postwar Era is no exception. *includes combined musical charts for the years 1945-1959 *approximately 20 black and white images of the singers and musicians who represent the era's music

Author : Michael Lasser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469524

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City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 by Michael Lasser Pdf

An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.

Author : Tighe E. Zimmers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476678818

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That's Entertainment by Tighe E. Zimmers Pdf

Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984), a premier composer of American Popular Song during the mid-20th century, has been overlooked by historians. This first full-length biography covers his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, where he was known as the "master of the intimate revue" for his songs in the 1930s with Howard Dietz. Schwartz wrote music for films in the 1940s--with Academy Award nominations for They're Either Too Young or Too Old and A Gal in Calico--produced two popular movie musicals--Cover Girl and Night and Day--and was among the first songwriters to work in the new medium of television. The author describes his creative process and includes behind-the-scenes stories of each of his major musicals.

Author : David MacFadyen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773570627

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Songs for Fat People by David MacFadyen Pdf

The author traces the careers of early singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Soviet society that had little patience for café-culture. MacFadyen follows their trail through Eastern Europe to Paris and London, then across to New York and San Francisco, and back into Russia through the smoky, émigré bars of colourful Chinese towns. He pays particular attention to the notion of "mass" songs inside the Soviet Union and explores the relationship of official and public approval. By looking at how these performers used success at home and abroad to become recording stars, film stars, and eventually television personalities, MacFadyen avoids the conventional dichotomies about the East Block to show the complexity of Soviet culture.

Author : Daniel Jaffé
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538130087

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Historical Dictionary of Russian Music by Daniel Jaffé Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries for each of Russia’s major performing organizations and performance venues, and on specific genres such as ballet, film music, symphony and church music.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 3197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Malcolm Macfarlane,Ken Crossland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476600246

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Perry Como by Malcolm Macfarlane,Ken Crossland Pdf

Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como was the first popular singer to cross over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como’s career illuminates developments in the music and television business in the middle of the last century. This biography features 73 photographs, a complete discography, a listing of all television appearances, and a year by year chronology of Perry Como’s life from 1912 to 2001.

Author : Laurence Maslon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199832545

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Broadway to Main Street by Laurence Maslon Pdf

The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country. The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century--from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings--and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet. The original Broadway cast album--from the 78 rpm recording of Oklahoma! to the digital download of Hamilton--is one of the most successful, yet undervalued, genres in the history of popular recording. The challenge of capturing musical narrative with limited technology inspired the imagination of both the recording industry and millions of listeners: between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original cast albums hit number one on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number one than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined. The history of Broadway music is also the history of American popular music; the technological, commercial, and marketing forces of communications and media over the last century were inextricably bound up in the enterprise of bringing the musical gems of New York's Theater District to living rooms along Main Streets across the nation. Featuring new interviews with Stephen Schwartz, Chita Rivera, Steve Lawrence, and prominent record producers and music critics, the story of this commercial and emotional phenomenon is told here in full--from the imprimatur of sheet music from Broadway in the early 20th century to the renaissance of Broadway music in the digital age, folding in the immense impact of show music on American culture and in the context of the recording industry, popular tastes, and our shared national identity. A book which connects cherished cultural artifacts to the emotional narratives at the core of American popular music, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is an ideal companion for all fans of American musical theater and popular music.

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472054503

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Music on the Move by Danielle Fosler-Lussier Pdf

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Vaudeville Performers by Wikipedia contributors Pdf