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Singers and the Song By Gene Lees
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- Title
- Singers and the Song
- ISBN
- 9780195060874
- EAN
- 9780195060874
- Book Title
- Singers and the Song
- Item Length
- 5.3 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 8 in
- Item Weight
- 8.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Led by Frank Sinatra, the generation that emerged during and after World War II raised the performance of the popular song to the level of art form. This book examines some of the most gifted of these singers--people like Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, and Sarah Vaughn. Far from being the simple intuitive performers the public thought it knew, these great vocalists emerge as intelligent, skillful, and fully conscious artists dedicated to their work.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195060873
ISBN-13
9780195060874
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1991327
Product Key Features
Book Title
Singers and the Song
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.3 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
8 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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"The way the essays flow together, Singers and the Song has the sweep of a jazz-orchestral suite organized around recurrent motifs."--Stephen Holden, The New York Times, "[Lees] writes about the subject with rare exactness and sensitivity."--Peter Conrad, The New York Times Book Review, "Lees, a lyric writer himself, is not only an extraordinarily perceptive reporter and analyst of jazz performance, jazz history, and jazz people, but also one of those writers who's a joy to read on any subject at all."--The Washington Post Book World, "Beautifully crafted.... Recommended for its information, point of view, and authority to general as well as academic libraries."--Choice, "Rarely does a participant (Lees himself is a fine lyricist) manage to write with such perception about his craft. But the same skill that inspires Lees' own lyrics renders this book a minor masterpiece....A book to be cherished by anyone who yearns for the 'good old days of song.'"--KirkusReviews, "[Lees] makes us care as deeply as he does about such matters as how Sinatra and Jo Stafford do what they do or the reasons for the big band's decline....A superlative collection."--Booklist, "Gene Lees has a reputation in the music business for writing 'inside stuff.' This time he has fooled us all--this is a book to be read and enjoyed by the general public. I recommend it."--Gene Kelly, "A treasure of essays that explores the technique of lyric writing, the end of the big band era, the genius of songwriters Johnny Mercer and Hugo Friedhofer, the art of singers Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, and Dick Haymes, and the derivation of language."--Newsday, 'A book to be enjoyed...I recommend it' Gene Kelly'Lees is a superb writer, erudite, compassionate, sensitive and knowledgeable.'Ray Comiskey, Irish Times'a treasure of essays that explores the technique of lyric writing.' Newsday'Lees is writing some of the best popular commentary on jazz, classic American popular song, their practitioners, and their milieu that ever has been written.' Booklist'A collection of fascinating personal essays that have appeared in Jazzletter.' Library Journal'The way the essays flow together, Singers and the Song has the sweep of a jazz-orchestral suite organized around recurrent motifs.' The New York Times'Gene Lees, a lyric writer himself, is not only an extraordinarily perceptive reporter and analyst of jazz performance, jazz history and jazz people, but also one of those writers who's a joy to read on any subject at all.' Bookworld'the best book on popular singers that I have ever read ... he writes like a dream, combining scholarship with insight, musicianship with approachability for the layman'Stage & Television Today'Lots of amusing and fascinating stories emerge about the creation of particular songs'Colin Cooper, Beat Scene'beautifully crafted essays ... Few rock writers begin to approach his grasp of the evolution of his chosen music.'Q'Gene Lees shows how our anemic language can be transfused with emotion by turning words into song ... he cherishes words as much as he loves music'New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
784.5/00973
Dewey Edition
19
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