ISBN: 9780195038910

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing … Mehr…

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper. The jazz age set the sound of popular music into the 1950s. It included the flowering of improvised music by such artists as Armstrong, Bix Benderbecke, and Duke Ellington; the maturation and Americanization of the Broadway musical theatre; the explosion of the arts celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of the classical blues singers starting with Mamie Smith and climaxing with Bessie Smith; the evolution of ragtime into stride piano; the spread of "speakeasy" night life and the emergence of the Cabaret singers; the musical creativity of a whole range of composers and songwriters including Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Youmans, Rodgers and Hart, and Cole Porter, whom Shaw calls Song Laureate of the Roaring 20s. Here is a lively account of all these significant developments and personalities. A bibliography, detailed discography, and two informative lists--songs of the 20s in Variety's Golden 100 and films featuring singers and songwriters of the era--round out the book. Media > Book, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

1987, ISBN: 9780195038910

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy (with less than the usual number of stamps/labels. No library m… Mehr…

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy (with less than the usual number of stamps/labels. No library markings whatsoever on the Dust Jacket. No library markings on the title page or cloth spine. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on front endpaper. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Appendix: VARIETY'S 'Golden 100 Tin Pan Alley Songs.' Chapter notes. Bibliography. Discography. Index. Song Index. A chronicle of the music of the "Roaring Twenties" including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals, "set against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper." Celebrates the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of the classic blues singers; the evolution of ragtime into stride piano, the spread of the 'speakeasy' night life; the rise of the jazz soloist; etc. Looks at Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, etc.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine/red boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (19.95). 8vo. x, 350pp.. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Oxford University Press, 1987, 0<

1987, ISBN: 0195038916

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780195038910], [PU: Oxford University Press, New York], Jacket, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket. Mild EX-LIBRARY… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780195038910], [PU: Oxford University Press, New York], Jacket, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy (with less than the usual number of stamps/labels. No library markings whatsoever on the Dust Jacket. No library markings on the title page or cloth spine. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on front endpaper. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Appendix: VARIETY'S 'Golden 100 Tin Pan Alley Songs.' Chapter notes. Bibliography. Discography. Index. Song Index. A chronicle of the music of the "Roaring Twenties" including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals, "set against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper." Celebrates the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of the classic blues singers; the evolution of ragtime into stride piano, the spread of the 'speakeasy' night life; the rise of the jazz soloist; etc. Looks at Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, etc. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine/red boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (19.95). 8vo. x, 350pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Books<