Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping.We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. Some great books and Magazines on Vaudeville, Burlesque, Music Hall and the FolliesClick on this link for more Theater and Vaudeville Books!Click on this link for more Radio Television and Broadcasting Magazines and Books!American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 1st Editionby Alec Wilder (Author), James T. Maher (Editor), Gene Lees (Foreword)When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music. It has since become the standard work of the great songwriters who dominated popular music in the United States for half a century. Now Wilder's classic is available again, with a new introduction by Gene Lees.Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, American Popular Song focuses on the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and have made it an authentic art form. Wilder traces the roots of the American style to the ragtime music of the 1890s, shows how it was incorporated into mainstream popular music after 1900, and then surveys the careers of every major songwriter from World War I to 1950. Wilder devotes desparate chapters to such greats as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen. Illustrated with over seven hundred musical examples, Wilder's sensitive analyses of the most distinctive, creative, and original songs of this period reveal unexpected beauties in songs long forgotten and delightful subtleties in many familiar standards. The result is a definitive treatment of a strangely unsung and uniquely American art.Review"The first serious and most valuable study of American popular music....Provocative, informative, opinionated, and never dull."?Down Beat"An invaluable and pioneering book....[Wilder] examines with wit and grace some eight hundred of the three hundred thousand American songs published in the first half of the century....A fair, positive, erudite celebration of American songwriting."?Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker"An entrancing volume that will bring special pleasure to everyone with a comprehensive record library."?Music JournalProduct detailsPublisher ? : ? Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 27, 1975)Language ? : ? EnglishPaperback ? : ? 576 pagesDimensions ? : ? 6 x 0.75 x 9 inchesFirst Edition 1975 by Oxford University Press Paperback. Size 6x9" 576 pages w numerous musical notationsCONDITION VERY GOODBook in close to new condition with slight wear to covers . Interior clean, no markings, odor or animal hairs, binding and spine sound, jacket covers have light rubs. ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price. CLICK HERE FOR MORE Vintage Record Catalogs and Booklets! Please check my other listings for some great vintage Turntable and Phonograph items, Phonograph and Music books! Click here for some great items up for auction and fixed price items: Click here for more great Books, Catalogs, Phonograph and Turntable Items! Photos may have been taken under fluerescent light. Color values may have shiften. WE OFFER SHIPPING DISCOUNTS. IF you win multiple items, please wait for me to send you an invoice first before paying. That way I can make sure that you will receive a single low postage for the whole package. All items will be safely packed to avoid any damage and promptly shipped. Thank you for your interest, and enjoy! Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping.We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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