Overview
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included-the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era.
- | Author: Timothy E. Scheurer
- | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1989
- | Number of Pages: 190 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0879724668
- | ISBN-13: 9780879724665
