Portrait of American music
Subtitle: great twentieth-century musicians
By: Bob Conte ; illustrated by Ron Delli Colli
Publisher: J. Weston Walch
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Musicians -- United States -- Biography; Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and discographies
Table of contents: value: Folk music. Leadbelly ; Woody Guthrie ; Bob Dylan; value: Blues. Bessie Smith ; Muddy Waters ; Ray Charles; value: Country music. Jimmie Rodgers ; Hank WIlliams ; Bill Monroe; value: Jazz. Louis Armstrong ; Duke Ellington ; Billie Holiday ; Miles Davis; value: Popular music. Irving Berlin ; Al Jolson ; George Gershwin ; Frank Sinatra; value: Classical music. Aaron Copland ; Leonard Bernstein ; Beverly Sills; value: Rock. Elvis Presley ; Stevie Wonder ; Bruce Springsteen