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03321aam a2200397 i 4500 001 0DE241DA9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190401s2019 nyua b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019010526 020 $a 1580469523 020 $a 9781580469524 035 $a (OCoLC)1050607266 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NYP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a ML3477 $b .L38 2019 082 00 $a 782.421640973/091732 $2 23 100 1 $a Lasser, Michael L. $e author. 245 10 $a City songs and American life, 1900-1950 / $c Michael Lasser. 264 1 $a Rochester, NY : $b University of Rochester Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 303 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303). 520 $a "Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap. 650 0 $a Popular music $z United States $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cities and towns $z United States $x History and criticism. $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History and criticism. $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Popular music. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071422 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024356.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806080314.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0DE241DA9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search