American songbook

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Titulo: American songbookAutor: Black Dog & Leventhal ESTADO: NOVOISBN/EAN: 9781579124489Editor: Black Dog & Leventhal Ano: 2005Idioma: InglêsEncadernação: N.A.Páginas: 320Coleção: N.A.Nº. da Coleção: N.A.Código de Controlo: 57D Descrição: This illustrated celebration of American popular music is an authoritative and entertaining chronicle of our most enduring art form and its finest creators and interpreters. Presented in the striking format of Ken Bloom's successful Broadway Musicals, this rich visual history of popular song covers all of the prominent figures behind the music, in front of the bandstand, and on top of the piano. "The Singers" includes Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgorald, and dozens more; "The Songwriters" features Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Foster, Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Jerorne Kern, and a host of others; a lively section discusses the Big Bands; and a decade-by-decade insert puts the entire history of popular music in perspective through words and pictures. Each one of the more than 200 listings in the book features the artist's personal and professional history, great songs, and important contributions, plus photos (many rare), record covers, anecdotes, and quotes. Show more