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Author | : Michael A. Amundson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806157771 |
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Music |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Total Pages | : 1212 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Author | : United States. Patent Office |
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Total Pages | : 1872 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
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Total Pages | : 1298 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Patents |
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Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Total Pages | : 1484 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : בצלאל שמחה מנחם בן ציון רבינוביץ |
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Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Author | : Tracy Kidder |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-08-23 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0316204552 |
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. "Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal