| Music 133 | Spring Semester, 2003 |
| Rose Rosengard Subotnik | Rose_Subotnik@brown.edu |
The Rise and Fall of Tin Pan Alley
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Focusing on the decades between the 1880's
and the 1950's, this course examines social, musical and commercial forces behind
the emergence and decline of Tin Pan Alley as well as changes in the substance,
treatment, and significance of its songs during their years of popularity. Topics
addressed include national identity and race relations as well as the difficulties
of analyzing popular music.
SYLLABUS
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Music Internet Resources | |
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| American Composers | American Music Resources |
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Center for Popular Music
Research Special Collection Databases
Middle Tennessee State University
Sheet
Music Index
Duke University Libraries
Tin
Pan Alley
Eastern Kentucky University
The Red
Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
Tom
Morgan's Jazz and Blues
Theatre
Library Association
Theatre
Library Association: Internet Resources
Havlice, Patricia Pate
Popular
song index. Third supplement
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1989
Heard, Priscilla S.
American music, 1698-1800 : an annotated bibliography.
Waco,
Tex. : Baylor University Press, Markham Press Fund, c1975
Heskes,
Irene
Yiddish American popular songs, 1895 to 1950 : a catalog based on the Lawrence
Marwick roster of copyright entries.
Washington : Library of
Congress, 1992
Hyland, William
Richard Rodgers
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998
Hyland, William
The song is ended : songwriters and American music, 1900-1950
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
Jasen,
David A
Title
Tin Pan Alley : the composers, the songs, the performers, and their times : the
golden age of American popular music from 1886 to 1956
Published New
York : D.I. Fine, c1988
Kanter, Kenneth Aaron
The Jews on Tin Pan Alley : the Jewish contribution to American popular music,
1830-1940
New York : Ktav Pub. House ; Cincinnati : American
Jewish Archives, 1982
Klamkin, Marian
Old sheet music : a pictorial history. Photos. by Charles Klamkin
New York : Hawthorn Books, [c1975]
Krummel, Donald William
Bibliographical handbook of American music.
Urbana : University
of Illinois Press, c1987
Lax, Roger
The great song thesaurus / Roger Lax, Frederick Smith
2nd ed.,
updated and expanded
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
Levy,
Lester S.
Grace
notes in American history; popular sheet music from 1820-1900
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1967]
Levy, Lester S.
Picture the songs
: lithographs from the sheet music of nineteenth-century America.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1976
Lipsitz, George
Time passages
: collective memory and American popular culture.
Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press, c1990
Lissauer, Robert
Lissauer's encyclopedia of popular music in America : 1888 to the present
New York : Paragon House, 1991
Morgan, Thomas L.
From cakewalks to concert halls : an illustrated history of African American popular
music from 1895 to 1930 / by Thomas L. Morgan and William Barlow
Washington, D.C. : Elliott & Clark Pub., c1992
The New Grove dictionary of American music / edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock
and Stanley Sadie ; editorial coordinator Susan Feder
London
: Macmillan Press Ltd. ; New York : Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc., distributor,
1986
The
New York Public Library performing arts desk reference
New York :
Macmillan, c1994
Peters, Harry Twyford
America on stone; the other printmakers to the American people; a chronicle of
American lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly
before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph
disappeared from the American scene.
[Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,
Doran and Company, inc., c1931]
Peterson, Bernard L.
The
African American theatre directory, 1816-1960 : a comprehensive guide to early
Black theatre organizations, companies, theatres, and performing groups. Foreword
by Errol Hill.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Peterson,
Bernard L., jr.
A
Century of Musicals in Black and White. An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works
By, About, or Involving African Americans .
Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1993.
Popular music, 1900-1919 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including
introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index,
chronological index, and list of publishers./ Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, editor
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Inc., c1988
Popular music, 1920-1979 : a revised cumulation / Nat Shapiro and Bruce
Pollock, editors
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985
Popular music, 1980-1989 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including
introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index,
chronological index, awards index, and list of publishers / Bruce Pollock, editor
Revised cumulation
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Inc., c1995
Resources
of American music history : a directory of source materials from Colonial times
to World War II; D. W. Krummel ... [et al.]
Urbana : University of
Illinois Press, c1981
Riis, Thomas Laurence.
More
than just minstrel shows : the rise of Black musical theatre at the turn of the
century
New York : Institute for Studies in American
Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York,
c1992.
Riis, Thomas Laurence.
Just
before jazz : Black musical theater in New York, 1890-1915
Washington
: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989.
Sampson,
Henry T., 1934-
Blacks
in blackface : a source book on early Black musical shows
Metuchen,
N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1980.
Sampson, Henry T.,
1934-
The ghost walks
: a chronological history of Blacks in show business, 1865-1910
Metuchen,
N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.
Shapiro, Nat
Popular music (Detroit, Mich.)
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
Co., c1974-
Note: An annotated index of American popular songs. Edited by
Nat Shapiro, v. 1-6 (covering 1920-1969); Bruce Pollock, v. 7- (covering 1970-
). A revised cumulation, 1980-1989, supersedes v. 9 (1980)-14 (1989)
Southern,
Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982
Southern, Eileen
The music of black Americans : a history.
3rd ed
New York
: W.W. Norton, c1997
Tatham, David
The lure of the striped pig; the illustration of popular music in America, 1820-1870
Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1973
Van der Merwe, Peter
Origins of the popular style : the antecedants of twentieth-century popular music
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
Wilder, Alec.
American popular song : the great innovators, 1900-1950 / Alex Wilder; edited
and with an introduction by James T. Maher ; a new foreword by Gene Lees.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Wilmeth, Don B
American
and English popular entertainment : a guide to information sources; foreword by
Brooks McNamara
Wilmeth,
Don B
The
American stage to World War I : a guide to information sources.
Detroit
: Gale Research Co., [c1978]
Wilmeth, Don B
Variety
entertainment and outdoor amusements : a reference guide.
Westport,
Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982
Witmark, Isidore
The story of the house of Witmark : from ragtime to swingtime, by Isidore Witmark
and Issac Goldberg
New York, L. Furman [1939]
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