American Songbook: Music for the Masses

By Ann Ommen van der Merwe

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442242442
• ISBN13: 9781442242449
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"