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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. - Review - book review Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. By William Howland Kenney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN ......(Continue Reading) Tin Pan Alley on the march: popular music, World War II, and the quest for a great war song In 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a new Irving Berlin song appeared on jukeboxes across the United States. Berlin and his sponsors ......(Continue Reading)The music of Casablanca: in the flashback scene, Sam sings "As Time Goes By" at La Belle Aurore in Paris Abstract: The author provides an analysis of how Max Steiner wove diegetic and nondiegetic music in Casablanca (1942) into a meaningful score that illuminates ......(Continue Reading)Reclaiming the rhozhinke: music and the synagogue service Once, in a troubled time for the Jewish people, Rabbi Israel of Retzin stood before God and said Master of the Universe! We do not know ......(Continue Reading)The Unbroken Circle: Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. - book review By Fred Metting Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2001, 304 pages, ISBN 0810838184, hbk., $60.00 This book's subtitle suggests that New Hampshire university ......(Continue Reading)
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