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Sto caricando le informazioni... The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Songdi Ben Yagoda
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  Artymedon | Aug 23, 2015 |   All the favorites - Gershwins, Cole Porter and Nat King, Yip Harburg, Rogers and Hammerstein, Burt Bacharach - are here, with the emphasis on the founding of ASCAP (hello, John Phillips Sousa!)and BMI and on how song pushers turned into song writers, how Hollywood and Broadway influences waxed and waned. The ethnicity (primarily Jewish songwriters and lyricists and primarily black singers to put those songs across) emphasis is also covered in a most thorough yet playful style. This is such an entertaining read, especially for those who know of nothing before Andrew Lloyd Webber (who thankfully doesn't get an mention!). (  )1  froxgirl | Feb 18, 2015 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it's a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came over the radio wasn't Gershwin, Porter, and Berlin, but "Come on-a My House" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" Elvis and rock and roll arrived a few years later, and at that point the game was truly up. What happened, and why? In The B Side, acclaimed cultural historian Ben Yagoda answers those questions in a fascinating piece of detective work. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources and on scores of interviews--the voices include Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert--the book illuminates broad musical trends through a series of intertwined stories. Among them are the battle between ASCAP and Broadcast Music, Inc.; the revolution in jazz after World War II; the impact of radio and then television; and the bitter, decades-long feud between Mitch Miller and Frank Sinatra. The B Side is about taste, and the particular economics and culture of songwriting, and the potential of popular art for greatness and beauty. It's destined to become a classic of American musical history" -- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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What is it that makes it so melodious, harmonic and poetic? Why was there a special black magic in those years - specifically between 1925s & 1950s- during which so many composers and lyricists produced relaxed, easy going and yet complex songs?
Between New-York's Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, he looks at the centers of production of timeless music though remaining products of their historical time.
How come this great American songbook has so few equivalents? There are great Russian, French, Italian, Peruvian, Korean, South African songbooks, yet none has had so much influence and continues to have, than the Great American Songbook.
From the secularization of Christmas by Mr. Berlin's forever white and snowy lyrical evocative of the Holidays season to the financials of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Mr. Marks, Yagoda writes about music production, radio stations, recording studios, lyrics and artists that give new interpretations of the songs of this songbook, years after years, come rock and roll or the British Invasion, come rain or come shine, with great depth and width of knowledge. (