| The Sounds of Music by Charles Marowitz |
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The music of America was finitely captured for the first time in the late l9th century when Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph made music tangibly accessible bringing the voices of celebrated artists into the parlors of millions of American homes. In the early years of the 20th century, this musical boom was the equivalent of the computerized revolution of our own era. For the first time, all of America could play and re-play the recorded ‘sounds of music’, a boon which had been denied to past generations. THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC: EARLY RECORDING ARTISTS is a personalized view of some of the most charismatic artists of this fertile period of American music.
The book provides sharp and concise profiles of legendary artists such as Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Sophie Tucker, Fannie Brice, Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes, Rudy Vallee, The Boswell Sisters and dozens of other outstanding recording artists of the period. It also fills in the social milieu in which these artists rose to prominence reflecting the spirit of both the roaring Twenties and the turbulent Thirties. It is a book for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a ballad, blues, torch-song or novelty number out of the great American Song Book.
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