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Tin Pan Alley Girl

Tighe E. Zimmers
Tin Pan Alley Girl Book PDF

Author : Tighe E. Zimmers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786439058

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Tin Pan Alley Girl by Tighe E. Zimmers Pdf

Best known as the writer of the lyric for the popular Disney song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" as well as the American standard "Willow Weep for Me," Ann Ronell was also a translator and orchestrator for operatic works. This biography traces Ronell's life from her early days in Omaha, Nebraska, and recounts her marriage to producer Lester Cowan and her friendships with George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and the baritone John Charles Thomas. Includes more than 40 photographs, a chronology, family tree and film credits.

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley

R. Grant Smith
From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley Book PDF

Author : R. Grant Smith
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814326587

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From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley by R. Grant Smith Pdf

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley documents the work of more than sixty popular songwriters who hailed from Saginaw, and provides background information and anecdotes about the most famous songwriters and their most famous songs. Among the greatest of the Saginaw songwriters were Charles K. Harris ("After the Ball'), Dan Russo ("Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goo'Bye!"), Gerald Marks ("All of Me"), Ange Lorenzo ("Sleepy Time Gal"), Isham Jones ("It Had to Be You"), and Ben Weisman ("Paper Roses", "Honey in the Horn"). More than seventy sheet music covers dating from between 1890 and 1955 are interposed with the narrative, adding to the book's charm and historic value.

The Poets of Tin Pan Alley

Philip Furia,Laurie J. Patterson
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley Book PDF

Author : Philip Furia,Laurie J. Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Lyricists
ISBN : 9780190906467

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The Poets of Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia,Laurie J. Patterson Pdf

"Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, so the story goes, once overheard someone praise "Ol' Man River" as a "great Kern song." "I beg your pardon," she said, "But Jerome Kern did not write 'Ol' Man River.' Mr. Kern wrote dum dum dum da; my husband wrote ol' man river." It's easy to understand her frustration. While the years between World Wars I and II have long been hailed as the "golden age" of American popular song, it is the composers, not the lyricists, who always usually get top billing. "I love a Gershwin tune" too often means just that-the tune-even though George Gershwin wrote many unlovable tunes before he began working with his brother Ira in 1924. Few people realize that their favorite "Arlen" songs each had a different lyricist-Ted Koehler for "Stormy Weather," Yip Harburg for "Over the Rainbow," Johnny Mercer for "That Old Black Magic." Only Broadway or Hollywood buffs know which "Kern" songs get their wry touch from Dorothy Fields, who would flippantly rhyme "fellow" with "Jello," and which of Kern's sonorous melodies got even lusher from Otto Harbach, who preferred solemn rhymes like "truth" and "forsooth." Jazz critics sometimes pride themselves on ignoring the lyrics to Waller and Ellington "instrumentals," blithely consigning Andy Razaf or Don George to oblivion"--

Tin Pan Alley

Keith Hayward
Tin Pan Alley Book PDF

Author : Keith Hayward
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780957144200

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This unique book tells the story of two stars. One is Sir Elton John and his career up to the breakthrough gigs at the LA Troubadour in 1970. The other is Tin Pan Alley itself.

God Bless America

Kathleen E.R. Smith
God Bless America Book PDF

Author : Kathleen E.R. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813185385

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God Bless America by Kathleen E.R. Smith Pdf

After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song—an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined "proper" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write. The music business also formed its own Music War Committee to promote war songs. Neither group succeeded. The OWI hoped that Tin Pan Alley could be converted from manufacturing love songs to manufacturing war songs just as automobile plants had retooled to assemble planes and tanks. But the OWI failed to comprehend the large extent by which the war effort would be defined by advertisers and merchandisers. Selling merchandise was the first priority of Tin Pan Alley, and the OWI never swayed them from this course. Kathleen E.R. Smith concludes the government's fears of faltering morale did not materialize. Americans did not need such war songs as "Goodbye, Mama, I'm Off To Yokohama", "There Are No Wings On a Foxhole", or even "The Sun Will Soon Be Setting On The Land Of The Rising Sun" to convince them to support the war. The crusade for a "proper" war song was misguided from the beginning, and the music business, then and now, continues to make huge profits selling love—not war—songs.

Tin Pan Alley

David A. Jasen
Tin Pan Alley Book PDF

Author : David A. Jasen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135949013

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Tin Pan Alley by David A. Jasen Pdf

For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.

Acoustic Music Source Book

RICHARD L. MATTESON, JR.
Acoustic Music Source Book Book PDF

Author : RICHARD L. MATTESON, JR.
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619110991

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Acoustic Music Source Book by RICHARD L. MATTESON, JR. Pdf

Bill Bay asked me to write a follow up book to my last book, "The Bluegrass Pickers Tune Book (20233). If you like Bluegrass music (232 songs) I'd recommend getting that book to add to your collection. the focus of this book, the Acoustic Source Book is on roots and old-time music. the book is focused on the time period from late 1800's until 1940's. There are a few songs from the Bluegrass Book that were too important to be left out. I decided not to use any patriotic and Christmas songs and came up with a list of about 400 songs which eventually was cut down to over 200. During the late 1800's and early 1900's there was an important evolution in American music; the birth of jazz, ragtime, and blues. This was also the period of the phonograph and early commercial recordings. Music from the Minstrel period as well as traditional songs were used as staple for the roots musicians. In the early 1900's there were rags, blues, gospel, Tin-Pan Alley, jug band, spiritual, old-time country and popular songs. I've tried to include some of the well-known songs from every genre to give you a big slice of Americana. There are some great songs that are popular roots, bluegrass and old-time songs today that have never been published. There are also great songs that are not well known that should be played and enjoyed.Richard Matteson with Kara Pleasants Wildwood Flower http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO9Xde2bdwA Paul & Silas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5Tmaff9HQ Meet Me By the Moonlight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gwzCZfnG64 Scarborough Fair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbxMlz_DlI Water is Wide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hZkxWs8gs Richard Matteson with Jessica KasterBarbara Allen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX6PE80W4Pw In the Pines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOL9Id5TW4 Hop Along Peter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5kAzSQ__rU Ain't Gonna Lay my Armor Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsBYRuT2_FU

"A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"

David A. Jasen
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody Book PDF

Author : David A. Jasen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486294218

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"A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" by David A. Jasen Pdf

Original sheet music and covers for 40 beloved favorites, including After You've Gone, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby, and 36 other Golden Oldies. For sing-alongs, family get-togethers, parties, and other events.

Girl Groups, Girl Culture

Jacqueline Warwick
Girl Groups Girl Culture Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Warwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135875794

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Girl Groups, Girl Culture by Jacqueline Warwick Pdf

Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of "girlhood" in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s--including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles - studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. Warwick is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience--teenage girls--drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. Girl Groups, Girl Culture stands as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies.

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films

American Film Institute
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films Book PDF

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Aaron Lefkovitz
Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music Book PDF

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319770130

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Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music by Aaron Lefkovitz Pdf

This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.

The Songs that Fought the War

John Bush Jones
The Songs that Fought the War Book PDF

Author : John Bush Jones
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654430

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The Songs that Fought the War by John Bush Jones Pdf

A lively social history of popular wartime songs and how they helped America's home front morale.

The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia

Thomas S. Hischak
The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia Book PDF

Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015002816875

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The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak Pdf

Offers background information and commentary on 1,200 popular songs from a variety of styles and genres written between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century.

Weill's Musical Theater

Stephen Hinton
Weill s Musical Theater Book PDF

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520951839

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Weill's Musical Theater by Stephen Hinton Pdf

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill’s experiments with a range of genres—from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera—became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"—one European, the other American—Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill’s artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.

Music in Disney's Animated Features

James Bohn
Music in Disney s Animated Features Book PDF

Author : James Bohn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496812155

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Music in Disney's Animated Features by James Bohn Pdf

In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition he also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several of the Walt Disney Studios" seminal composers. The popularity and critical acclaim of Disney animated features truly is built as much on music as it is on animation. Beginning with Steamboat Willie and continuing through all of the animated features created under Disney's personal supervision, music was the organizing element of Disney's animation. Songs establish character, aid in narrative, and fashion the backbone of the Studios" movies from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through The Jungle Book and beyond. Bohn underscores these points while presenting a detailed history of music in Disney's animated films. The book includes research done at the Walt Disney Archives as well as materials gathered from numerous other facilities. In his research of the Studios" notable composers, Bohn includes perspectives from family members, thus lending a personal dimension to his presentation of the magical Studios" musical history. The volume's numerous musical examples demonstrate techniques used throughout the Studios" animated classics.