The American Songbook: Music For The Masses (Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series On Rock, Pop, And Culture)

The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.

• | Author: Ann Van Der Merwe
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 164 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1442242442
• | ISBN-13: 9781442242449