American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume 2: The Age of Rock

by Timothy E. Scheurer (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879724672
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Series:	Readings from the Popular Press Series
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

Essays by popular culture scholars on the major performers, composers/lyricists, media, and movements that shaped American musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, prior to the reign of rock and roll. Not indexed. Cloth edition (unseen), $37.95. Acidic paper. The second volume (see v.1, preceding entry) traces the roots of rock, its arrival on the cultural scene in the 1950s, its evolution in the 1960s, and its fragmentation and growing pluralistic thrust in the 1970s and 1980s. Encompasses an era from Woody Guthrie through Bruce Springsteen and MTV. Not indexed. Cloth edition (unseen), $41.95. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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