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White Christmas: The Story of an American Song by Rosen, Jody
by Rosen, Jody | HC | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0743218752
- Book Title
- White Christmas : the Story of an American Song
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Music, History, Social Science
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Modern / 20th Century, Popular Culture, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Information
When Irving Berlin first conceived the song "White Christmas," he envisioned it as a "throwaway" -- a satirical novelty number for a vaudeville-style stage revue. By the time Bing Crosby introduced the tune in the winter of 1942, it had evolved into something far grander: the stately yuletide ballad that would become the world's all-time top-selling and most widely recorded song.In this vividly written narrative, Jody Rosen provides both the fascinating story behind the making of America's favorite Christmas carol and a cultural history of the nation that embraced it. Berlin, the Russian-Jewish immigrant who became his adopted country's greatest pop troubadour, had written his magnum opus -- what one commentator has called a "holidayMoby-Dick"-- a timeless song that resonates with some of the deepest themes in American culture: yearning for a mythic New England past, belief in the magic of the "merry and bright" Christmas season, longing for the havens of home and hearth. Today, the song endures not just as an icon of the national Christmas celebration but as the artistic and commercial peak of the golden age of popular song, a symbol of the values and strivings of the World War II generation, and of the saga of Jewish-American assimilation. With insight and wit, Rosen probes the song's musical roots, uncovering its surprising connections to the tradition of blackface minstrelsy and exploring its unique place in popular culture through six decades of recordings by everyone from Bing Crosby to Elvis Presley to *NSYNC.White Christmaschronicles the song's legacy from jaunty ragtime-era Tin Pan Alley to the elegant world of midcentury Broadway and Hollywood, from the hardscrabble streets where Irving Berlin was reared to the battlefields of World War II where American GIs made "White Christmas" their wartime anthem, and from the Victorian American past that the song evokes to the twenty-first-century present where Berlin's masterpiece lives on as a kind of secular hymn.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743218752
ISBN-13
9780743218757
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2380611
Product Key Features
Book Title
White Christmas : the Story of an American Song
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Modern / 20th Century, Popular Culture, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml410.B499r67 2002
Reviews
The Christian Science MonitorPhenomenal cultural history...Focused and thoroughly engaging...White Christmasglides through this song's snow-capped history with verve, intelligence, and sleigh-bell jingling aplomb., Los Angeles TimesA detailed account of the song, a deft biographical sketch of Berlin, and a whirlwind tour of twentieth-century American popular culture...A gold mine of information and insight., Ashley KahnAuthor ofKind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis MasterpieceAmerica's most famous Christmas song -- under close and expert scrutiny -- reveals stories of past times and paradox. Jewish acculturation, Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood's Golden Age, and World War II all figure in Rosen's engagingly investigated, assiduously researched world-in-a-song effort., The Christian Science MonitorPhenomenal cultural history...Focused and thoroughly engaging...White Christmas glides through this song's snow-capped history with verve, intelligence, and sleigh-bell jingling aplomb., Ashley KahnAuthor of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis MasterpieceAmerica's most famous Christmas song -- under close and expert scrutiny -- reveals stories of past times and paradox. Jewish acculturation, Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood's Golden Age, and World War II all figure in Rosen's engagingly investigated, assiduously researched world-in-a-song effort.
Table of Content
Contents 1. Introduction: The Hit of Hits2. The Best Song Anybody Ever Wrote3. Beverly Hills, L.A.4. No Strings5. Good Jewish Music6. The Voice of Christmas7. A War Tonic8. Let It Snow9. Old SongsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-030877
Dewey Decimal
782.42/1723
Dewey Edition
21
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