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Music of the postwar era / Don Tyler.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3477 .T85 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyler, Don.
- Series:
- American history through music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Music in the postwar era is rich with a variety of sounds, from the WWII big bands, to composers such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, through country, jazz, musicals, and gospel, all the way to Chubby Checker and Elvis!
- Contents:
- Charting the hits
- How was popular music dispensed?
- From swing to sing
- The pre-rock fifties
- The early years of rock 'n' roll
- Hollywood's biggest hit songs and movie musicals of the postwar years
- The best of postwar Broadway
- Country and western music of the postwar years
- The most noteworthy composers and lyricists of the postwar years
- The top recording artists of the postwar years.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313341915
- 0313341915
- OCLC:
- 163625337
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