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The American Songbook : Music for the Masses

van der Merwe, Ann [Verfasser]

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (165 pages)

Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture

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978-1-4422-4245-6 ; 978-1-4422-4244-9

LS 48050

 

USA  Popmusik  Musikleben  Song  Kanon 

 

The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.