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Tawa, Nicholas E.

Supremely American : popular song in the 20th century : styles and singers and what they said about America / Nicholas Tawa. - Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005. - xvi, 331 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.

Preliminary considerations -- A closer look at the jazz age -- Swing time -- Change : different music cultures come to the fore -- White-American and British songs in a decade of turmoil -- Black-American music comes to the fore in the 1960s -- Out of the seventies -- The eighties and nineties -- A temporary ending.

ISBN: 0810852950 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780810852952 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004022882

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Popmuziek.
Musici.

LC Class. No.: ML3477 / T39 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 782.42164/0973/0904