The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Yagoda, Ben
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Yagoda, Ben

The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era. Everybody...
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The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Yagoda, Ben

The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

$225.15
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Yagoda, Ben

The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

$225.15
Author: Ben Yagoda
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era.

Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it's a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came over the radio wasn't Gershwin, Porter, and Berlin, but "Come on-a My House" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" Elvis and rock and roll arrived a few years later, and at that point the game was truly up. What happened, and why? In The B Side, acclaimed cultural historian Ben Yagoda answers those questions in a fascinating piece of detective work. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources and on scores of interviews--the voices include Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert--the book illuminates broad musical trends through a series of intertwined stories. Among them are the battle between ASCAP and Broadcast Music, Inc.; the revolution in jazz after World War II; the impact of radio and then television; and the bitter, decades-long feud between Mitch Miller and Frank Sinatra.

The B Side is about taste, and the particular economics and culture of songwriting, and the potential of popular art for greatness and beauty. It's destined to become a classic of American musical history.

Author: Ben Yagoda
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781594634093

About the Author
Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of twelve books, including About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made; How to Not Write Bad; Memoir: A History; and Will Rogers: A Biography. He contributes to The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Lingua Franca" blog and has written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and The American Scholar, among other publications. Yagoda lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife.


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