Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000

David Jenness, Donald Velsey

Routledge, Feb 4, 2014 - Music - 406 pages

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents

• 1 Classic Pop at Midcentury: 1
• 2 The Music Went Round and Round: 45
• 3 Late Flowering from Old Stock: 67
• 4 Indian Summer of the Classic Popular Song: 105
• 5 Restocking the Songbook: 147
• 6 The Land Where the Good Songs Go: 205
• 7 Other Voices in Popular Song: 243
• 8 Sondheim and After: 281
• 9 Classic American Popular Song at the End of the Twentieth Century: 329
• Permissions: 341
• General Index: 359
• Song Index: 367
• Songwriters Index: 381

About the author

David Jenness has performed as a pianist and singer, has been a music critic, and was president of the Kodaly Institute. As a historian of education, he is the author of Making Sense of Social Studies, among other works. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Donald Velsey is an architect by profession, and an amateur music historian. Beginning as a student at Yale and continuing thereafter, he has collected over 4000 American popular songs, many of them unpublished. He lives in Washington, DC.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000
• Authors: David Jenness, Donald Velsey
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2014
• ISBN: 1136797459, 9781136797453
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Music / General; Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal