New York
Subtitle: Songs of the City
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780823083497
Subjects: Folk music; Musical scores, lyrics & libretti; Vocal music; Songs and music; New York; Music; Music/Songbooks; Popular Music; New York (N.Y.); Ethnomusicology; History & Criticism - General; Popular; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History and criticism; New York (State)
First sentence: New York City has always been a unique place.
Description: "This book celebrates the songs that celebrate New York. It also tells the stories of the colorful men and women, such as George M. Cohan, Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart, Cole Porter, and George and Ira Gershwin, who expressed their fascination with the city through music and poetry."--BOOK JACKET.