For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the centre of popular music publishing in the US. Covering the full history... Læs mere
This book is an annotated index to over 2,000 of the most popular, best-remembered, historically important and otherwise influential and interesting popular music songs, from Scott Joplin to the latest rap hit.
Drawing on original research this book tells stories of the lives of nine seminal figures in American music history and how ragtime and popular dance music fed into and changed the development of early jazz.
Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written," this work documents the careers of songwriters like James A.... Læs mere
Over 350 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history of American popular song from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century to World War II, including coverage of composers, music publishers, styles, and songs.