The American songbook
Subtitle: music for the masses
By: Ann van der Merwe
Series: Tempo : a Rowman & Littlefield music series on rock, pop, and culture; Tempo (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781442242449
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Popular music; History and criticism
Description: xxix, 133 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: "Timeline": pages xi-xviii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120), discographies (pages 121-128), and index.
Table of contents: title: Essentials of the American songbook; title: Authors of the American songbook; title: The American songbook on stage; title: The American songbook on screen; title: Jazz and the American songbook; title: Interpreters of the American songbook; title: The American songbook in the 1950s and 1960s; title: The American songbook today; title: Epilogue. Amateurs and the American songbook.