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Stomp and swerve: American music gets hot, 1843-1924

By David , Wondrich

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2003
ISBN
155652496X, 9781569764961, 1569764964, 9781569764978, 1569764972
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4356082 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
(xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
etc;Popular music -- United States -- History andinterpretationJazz--Histoire et critique;MUSIC--Genres & Styles-

Description

Love and strife -- Minstrelsy, or, Get out de way -- Ragtime, or, All coons alike -- Black folks' opera -- Emmett's children, or, Hillbilly music.;The early decades of American popular music--Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso--are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music--black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude--made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music--how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers--and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and wom.

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