Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture
Subtitle: Essays on an American Icon
Contributors: Charles L. Granata (Collaborator); Leonard Mustazza (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780275964955
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Contemporary popular music; Cultural studies; Light orchestral, dance & big band music; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Biography & Autobiography; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; Music / Popular; Sinatra, Frank; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; 1915-; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Popular culture; Popular music; Sinatra, Frank,; United States
Description: Frank Sinatra's influence on American popular culture has been wide reaching and long lasting. This diverse collection of essays written by historians, music critics, and popular culture personalities offers a myriad of perspectives and commentaries on this multitalented legend.

Written to appeal to Sinatra fans, these unique essays, including one by Frank Sinatra himself, will provide new material for the ever-growing dialogue about Frank Sinatra's place in and influence over twentieth-century American popular culture.