American Singers

American Singers
Author: Whitney Balliett
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2006-02-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781578068357

A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker

American Diction for Singers

American Diction for Singers
Author: Geoffrey G. Forward
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739018767

Geoffrey G. Forward, acting coach and leading expert in American diction, clearly illustrates for the singer how to gain control by eliminating vocal tension and poor diction and replacing it with clear pronunciation. Put the finishing touches on your singing not only with the excellent diction you will gain by using this text, but also through the concepts of phrasing, identifying key words and singing with emotion, which are brought to life in this book. This 270-page book is an essential addition to the library of every singer, voice teacher and vocal coach.

Louis' Children

Louis' Children
Author: Leslie Gourse
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Louis Armstrong pioneered the jazz vocal. Based on dozens of interviews, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse performers who inherited Satchmo's legacy and made it their own. They are Ethel Waters, Bing Crosby, Bobby McFerrin, Cab Calloway, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Nat "King" Cole, Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, and many others.

Interviews with American Artists

Interviews with American Artists
Author: David Sylvester
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300092042

This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past 40 years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.

American Singing Groups

American Singing Groups
Author: Jay Warner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634099786

Offers a decade-by-decade history of American singing groups, from the Ames and Mills Brothers, to the Platters and the Beach Boys, to Destiny's Child, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and many others, covering more than 380 artists and furnishing information on each group's career, key members, influences, photos, and discographies. Original.

A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song, 1870-1980

A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song, 1870-1980
Author: Victoria Etnier Villamil
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1993
Genre: Songs
ISBN: 0810827743

New in Paperback 2004. Considers the lives and contributions of 144 significant composers in the field. Includes a general discography, bibliography, and indexes for both titles and poets. ...writing style is clear and enjoyable, the information she supplies about the songs pertinent and helpful...extremely useful to singers, voice teachers, coaches and musicologists in planning programs and in obtaining information about American art song repertoire.--Lori N. White, Taylor University

Songwriters of the American Musical Theatre

Songwriters of the American Musical Theatre
Author: Nathan Hurwitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317428323

From the favorites of Tin Pan Alley to today’s international blockbusters, the stylistic range required of a musical theatre performer is expansive. Musical theatre roles require the ability to adapt to a panoply of characters and vocal styles. By breaking down these styles and exploring the output of the great composers, Songwriters of the American Musical Theatre offers singers and performers an essential guide to the modern musical. Composers from Gilbert and Sullivan and Irving Berlin to Alain Boublil and Andrew Lloyd Webber are examined through a brief biography, a stylistic overview, and a comprehensive song list with notes on suitable voice types and further reading. This volume runs the gamut of modern musical theatre, from English light opera through the American Golden Age, up to the "mega musicals" of the late Twentieth Century, giving today’s students and performers an indispensable survey of their craft.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Author: Ann Lee Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2007
Genre: Art, American
ISBN: 0195373219

In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.

Originals

Originals
Author: Eleanor C. Munro
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1982
Genre: Art
ISBN:

At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women -- including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor -- and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century.