Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim 978-1631490293

The American musical landscape: the business of musicianship from Billings to Gershwin 9780520224827, 9780520077645, 9780520925458

In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues

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The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love) 9781493070954

In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After

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The American Songbook : Music for the Masses 9781442242456, 9781442242449

With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American pop

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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America 1469625563, 9781469625560

Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to

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Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession 9780813552040

Public trust in corporations plummeted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when “Lehman Brothers” and “General Mot

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The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin 1108437648, 9781108437646

George Gershwin is often described as a quintessentially American composer. This Cambridge Companion explains why, engag

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Listening in: Radio and the American imagination

Tracing radio's development from the early days of wireless to the shock jocks and NPR commentators of the '90

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Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression 9780520956506

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class hea

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George Gershwin

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Inside Black America

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