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Songbooks : the literature of American popular music
Author
Title
Songbooks : the literature of American popular music / Eric Weisbard.
ISBN
147802139X
9781478021391
9781478011941
1478011947
9781478014089
1478014083
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 530 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction and magazine essays. Others fought within the academy to establish fields like ethnomusicology and jazz studies. Drawing on his background as a Village Voice music critic and as the longtime organizer of the Pop Conference, Eric Weisbard offers an important corrective to a fragmented field"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2021. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Weisbard, Eric. Songbooks. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 30, 2024
Series
Refiguring american music
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Setting the Scene
The Jazz Age
Midcentury Icons
Vernacular Counterculture
After the Revolution
New Voices, New Methods
Topics in Progress.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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