Informationen zum Autor Ann van der Merwe has taught in the music departments of Miami University and Ohio State University. She is the author of The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song (Scarecrow Press, 2009) and has contributed entries to the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Her research has also been published in Music and the Moving Image and Studies in Musical Theatre, and she appeared in the 2000 national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Essentials of the American Songbook Chapter 2: Authors of the American Songbook Chapter 3: The American Songbook on Stage Chapter 4: The American Songbook on Screen Chapter 5: Jazz and the American Songbook Chapter 6: Interpreters of the American Songbook Chapter 7: The American Songbook in the 1950s and 1960s Chapter 8: The American Songbook Today Epilogue: Amateurs and the American Songbook Further Listening Further Reading

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Essentials of the American Songbook
Chapter 2: Authors of the American Songbook
Chapter 3: The American Songbook on Stage
Chapter 4: The American Songbook on Screen
Chapter 5: Jazz and the American Songbook
Chapter 6: Interpreters of the American Songbook
Chapter 7: The American Songbook in the 1950s and 1960s
Chapter 8: The American Songbook Today
Epilogue: Amateurs and the American Songbook
Further Listening
Further Reading