The American Songbook

Informationen zum Autor By Ann van der Merwe 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.

Auteur

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.

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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.