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* Read # Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers by Roy Hemming, David Hajdu Ç eBook or Kindle ePUB. Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers Features revealing biographies, critical assessments, and selective discographies and videographies.. The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present, are "written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs live on paper," says Clive Barnes]
| Title | : | Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557041482 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
A HANDY PRIMER Barry McCanna This is a useful book for anyone wanting to learn more about the great singers of what the author terms classic pop, but it shouldn't be regarded as definitive. Just to take a few examples that struck me as I read it, there's no mention of the fact that R
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The main part of the book is devoted to short chapters covering the lives, works and achievements of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mabel Mercer, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Nat "King" Cole, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and other outstanding artists. . The book is readable, entertaining, and refreshingly free of biographical trivia. From Publishers Weekly Hemming ( Discovering Great Music ) and Hajdu ( How to Shoot Your Kids on Home Video ) profile 52 singers of the melodic, intimate and sophisticated music known as classic pop, describing the evolution of this music in the 1920s and '30s and showing how it changed and developed during and after WW II. Photos not seen by PW. The analyses of the singers' styles are perceptive, for the authors discuss how each performer's personality has affected
Features revealing biographies, critical assessments, and selective discographies and videographies.. The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present, are "written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs live on paper," says Clive Barnes
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