Wilder & awlins - American Popular Song

Hailed as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music, this essential book is now brought fully up-to-date in a third edition by popular music scholar Robert Rawlins, just in time for the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Both skillfully analytical and engagingly informal, American Popular Song examines the musical qualities that created a uniquely American art form.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Robert Rawlins
1. The Transition Era: 1885 to World War I
2. Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
3. Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
4. George Gershwin (1898-1937)
5. Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
6. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
7. Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
8. Vincent Youmans (1898-1946) and Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984)
9. Burton Lane (1912- 1997), Hugh Martin (1914-2011), and Vernon Duke (1903-1969)
10. The Great Craftsmen
Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)
Harry Warren (1893-1981)
Isham Jones (1894-1956)
Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Fred Ahlert (1892-1953)
Richard Whiting (1891-1938)
Ray Noble (1907-1978)
John Green (1908-1989)
Rube Bloom (1902-1976)
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
11. Outstanding Individual Songs: 1920 to 1950
12. Additional Songs and Composers
Index