Listening for America : inside the great American songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim /

""Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow." -Kansas City Star Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the compose...

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1. autor: Kapilow, Robert (Autor)
Format: Książka
Wydane: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019.
Wydanie:First edition.
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Spis treści:
  • Prologue : Nothing Comes from Nothing
  • Inventing America / Jerome Kern's "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
  • The New Sexual Morality / Cole Porter's "Let's Do It"
  • Airbrushing the Depression / George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"
  • Segregation and Opportunity in Harlem / Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather"
  • Appropriation or Inspiration? / George Gershwin's "Summertime"
  • Immigration and the American Voice / Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek"
  • How the Other Half Lived / Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine"
  • Love in New York / Richard Rodgers's "I Wish I Were in Love Again"
  • The Impact of Recorded Sound / Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are"
  • America Goes to the Movies / Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow"
  • World War II and the Integrated Musical / Richard Rodgers's "If I Loved You"
  • America Gets a Classical Voice / Leonard Bernstein's "I Can Cook Too"
  • Will the Real Annie Oakley Please Stand Up? / Irving Berlin's "I Got the Sun in the Morning"
  • Fantasy in New York / Leonard Bernstein's "Tonight"
  • Rock and Roll, Broadway, and the Me Decade / Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns"
  • New Directions On and Off Broadway / Stephen Sondheim's "Finishing the Hat"
  • Epilogue : The Broadway Musical Goes Global.