Research Catalog
Popular-music culture in America
- Title
- Popular-music culture in America / Prince Dorough.
- Author
- Dorough, Prince.
- Publication
- New York : Ardsley House Publishers, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ML3477 .D67 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 352 pages : illustrations, portraits, music; 25 cm
- Summary
- Studies the history of popular music in this country. The text begins with an introduction to the foundations of music in colonial America and progresses through important and influential movements in our history, from ragtime to rap and numerous topics in between. It looks at important artists and groups in each genre. --From publisher's description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-342) and index.
- Contents
- Foundations -- American pop grows -- Ragtime and the blues -- The growth of jazz -- The swing era -- The rise of the pop solo singer -- Country music -- Broadway, from vaudeville to Berlin -- Broadway, from Kern to the Gershwins -- Broadway, from Rodgers and Hart to Stephen Sondheim -- The recording industry -- Tin Pan Alley -- The folk-music revival -- Prelude to the rock era -- Elvis -- The Beatles -- Rock foundations -- Rock in its adolescence -- Rock at maturity.
- ISBN
- 1880157047
- 9781880157046
- LCCN
- 92219809
- OCLC
- ocm26223291
- 26223291
- SCSB-14423754
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library