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| Title | : | The Voices That are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195057503 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic
"Finson's work represents a superior addition to a body of literature"--American Music"Finson's history of the racial, societal, and theatrical factors that went into minstrel show stereotypes is a brilliant and perceptive overview.he arranges it in a framework that enlarges and brightens our understanding of the human forces at play in the fields of song."--Notes
19th Century Popular Song The history of American Popular Song is pretty clear over the past one hundred years: Tin Pan Alley, succeeded by the Brill Building, succeeded by the Beatles and the Summer of Love, drawing on and recombining with separate but related traditions emanating out of rural White (Country/Hillbilly) and Blac
. Jon W. Finson is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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