RISE OF THE CROONERS by Pitts, Michael R ISBN 0810840812
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Most pop music fan are aware of icons such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Their fame spanned all the media, including radio, television and movies. Yet, few are aware of the role the performers played in the crooning tradition.
Most popular music fans are well aware of the cultural icons such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee. These stars - and many of their peers - cast a large shadow over the entertainment field during the twentieth century. Their fame spanned all of the important mass media, including radio, television, movies, sound, recordings, Broadway, vaudeville, and the concert hall. However, few are aware of the vital role these performers played in the origin and development of the crooning tradition. Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth century, intermingling with jazz and fronting the big band craze of the thirties and forties. Crooners spurred the rise of radio as home staple and the Golden Age of film musicals. When commercial television became a viable commodity, crooners anchored perhaps the first TV programming innovation, the variety show. It took the cataclysmic aesthetic and cultural changes ushered in by rock 'n' roll in the 1950s to finally bring crooners down from their pedestal. The Rise of the Crooner examines the historical trends and events that led to the emergence of the crooning style. Ian Whitcomb, a successful popular music vocalist himself for almost 40 years, provide a personal perspective on this phenomena. In addition, the lives and careers of six pioneers of the style - Bing Crosby, Russ Colombo, Gene Austin, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Marvin, and Nick Lucas - are covered at length. With the exception of entry devoted to Crosby - Possibly the greatest entertainer of the past century - these biographies (appended by lengthy bibliographies and discographies) are more thorough and up-to-date than any treatment in print about these seminal artists.
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[edit] Title
RISE OF THE CROONERS
[edit] Author
Pitts, Michael R
[edit] ISBN
0810840812
[edit] Published
28/12/2001
[edit] Publisher
Scarecrow Press, U.S.
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
31 (GBP)
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30.38 (GBP)
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