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Classic American Popular Song [Elektronische Ressource] : The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000

Jenness, David ; Velsey, Donald

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

406 p.

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978-0-415-97056-3

LQ 89307 LS 48000 LS 48050

 

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978-1-13-679745-3

First published in 20Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 addresses the question: ""What happened to American popular song after 1950?"" There are numerous books available on the so-called ""Golden Age"" of popular song, but none that follow the development of popular song styles in the second half of the 20th century. While 1950 is seen as the ""end of an era,"" the tap of popular song creation hardly ran dry after that date. Many of the classic songwriters continued to work through the following decades: Porter was active until 1958; Rodgers until the later 1970s...