Readings from the Popular Press
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/01/1990
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included-the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era.
- ISBN:
- 9780879724665
- 9780879724665
- Category:
- Jazz
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 27-01-1990
- Publisher:
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 190
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x159x11mm
- Weight:
- 0.27kg
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