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Supremely American : popular song in the 20th century : styles and singers and what they said about America /

by Tawa, Nicholas E.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005Description: xvi, 331 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0810852950 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780810852952 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism | Popmuziek | Musici
Contents:
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.
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ML3477 T39 2005 (Browse shelf) Available 00016819
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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.


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