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Автор: Michael Lasser
Название: City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950
ISBN: 9781580469524
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
Издательство: University of Rochester Press
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ISBN-10: 1580469523
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 318
Вес: 0.67 кг.
Дата издания: 17.06.2019
Серия: Arts
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 160 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General/trade
Ключевые слова: Jazz, MUSIC / History & Criticism
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas Fats Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Through their songs, these artists described America -- not its geography or politics, but its heart -- to Americans and to the world at large. In City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 , renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs -- including some written originally for the stage or screen -- that America heard, sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Many songs portrayed the glamor of Broadway or the energy and Jazz Age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit -- or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking -- also infused other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the Twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and womens right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Lassers deftly written book demonstrates how the soul of city life -- as echoed in the nations songs -- developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole. Michael Lasser, a former teacher and theater critic, is host of the syndicated public-radio show Fascinatin Rhythm (winner of the Peabody Award) and the author of two previous books. Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950, Michael Lasser