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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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
2019.
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Table des matières:
- 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.