American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 Book

American Popular Song This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows ho... Full descriptionRead More

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  • Blackwell

    'The first serious and most valuable study of American popular music, the blood and bone of so much glorious jazz. The book is provocative, informative, opinionated, never dull.' -Down Beat This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who...

  • Foyles

    This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book...

  • Pickabook

    Alec Wilder, James T. Maher (Editor)

  • 0195014456
  • 9780195014457
  • Alec Wilder
  • 27 April 1972
  • Oxford University Press Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 576
  • Reprint
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