Book Description
The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.
Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107161525
The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.
Author : David Joel Metzer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 9781108523158
While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years, offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history. Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life in America.
Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 048631992X
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691043999
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108509746
While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years, offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history. Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life in America.
Author : Simon Frith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521556606
This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.
Author : Benjamin Filene
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780807848623
In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo
Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521825092
Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. By working with and altering a melody, a musician also transforms those associations. This book explores that vibrant practice, examining how musicians used quotation to participate in the cultural dialogues sustained around such areas as race, childhood, madness, and the mass media.
Author : Kip Lornell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Folk music
ISBN :
Author : Pete Seeger
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1980-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783234245
Pete Seeger is an outstanding folksinger and an American treasure. Millions in every corner of the globe have listened to and sung along with Seeger—discovering the riches of America's folk song heritage. Originally published in 1961, this book includes the most popular songs in Pete Seeger's songbag. 84 traditional folk songs, including such favorites as "Irene Goodnight," "Darline Corey," "Shenandoah," etc. Each song comes complete with melody line, lyrics, guitar chords, and Seeger's own introductory comments. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 reproductions of documentary prints and wood-cuts, American Favorite Ballads presents a rich panorama of our America's great folk song legacy.