Author: Hyland, William G.
Title: The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950.
Description: Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 360 pp.- The Song is Ended is the story of the Golden Age of American popular music, and a celebration of the enduring melodies and colorful life stories of five of this century's most engaging songwriters: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, with a fond bow in the direction of Victor Herbert and George M. Cohan. Author William G. Hyland provides an expert analysis of trends in popular songwriting during the first half of this century, escorting readers on a fascinating tour of the sights and sounds of fifty-odd years of American music, from the scratchy victrolas and Old World melodies of New York's teeming Lower East Side, to the hustle and bustle of Tin Pan Alley, to the hot rhythms and smoky clubs of the Jazz Age, to the sound stages of Hollywood and the glittering Broadway triumphs of Showboat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Pal Joey, and Oklahoma!. Nostalgic lovers of good music will delight in the stories behind some of their favorite songs: Irving Berlin, for example, originally wrote his tender and romantic classic I'll Be Loving You, Always, for a Marx Brothers revue (he wisely cut it), and he first composed God Bless America as an enlisted soldier in 1918, only to put it aside for almost twenty years when the pianist helping him rehearse for an army benefit complained Geez, another patriotic song? Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780195086119.

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