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Singers and the Song Book

The author, himself a successful lyricist and singer, gives an informed view of some of the great figures of popular song, among them Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Edith...Read More

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    Led by Frank Sinatra, the generation that emerged during and after World War II raised the performance of the popular song to the level of art. Gene Lees' fascinating book examines some of the most gifted of these singers, including Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, and Sarah Vaughan.
    Far from being the simple intuitive performers the public thought it knew, these people emerge--in Singers and the Song--as intelligent, skillful, and fully conscious artists dedicated to their work. Lees also discusses the composers, including the great film composer, Hugo Friedhodfer, and the supremely talented lyricist, Johnny Mercer; explores the language of the popular song; focuses on the social history of twentieth-century America, seen through the mirror of popular music; and examines the theme of war, from the Viking conquest of northwestern France, through World War II, to the present.

  • 0195060873
  • 9780195060874
  • Gene Lees
  • 25 January 1990
  • Oxford Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New Ed
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