American Popular Music(English, Paperback, Scheurer Timothy E)

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American Popular Music(English, Paperback, Scheurer Timothy E) is written by Scheurer Timothy E and published by The Popular Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0879724668 (ISBN 10) and 9780879724665 (ISBN 13).

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.