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20th century music history
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american songbook
American songwriters
ASCAP
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Betty Comden
Broadway
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classic
composers
Deems Taylor
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Gershwin
golden age of songwriting
Great American Songbook
Hammerstein
Ira Gershwin
lyrical craft
lyrics
Max Wilk
Michael Feinstein
modern
music history
music interviews
music oral histories
new material
oral history
photographs
pop vocal history
popular music
Richard Rodgers
Rogers and Hart
show tunes
songs
songwriters
songwriting biography
Stephen Sondheim
timeless
Tin Pan Alley
Tony Bennett
Product details
- ISBN 9780979824807
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Easton Studio Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reprinted and revised several times since, They're Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th century, these classic and timeless songs and lyrics are as popular today as ever.
Max Wilk wrote 27 books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as numerous television shows, plays, musicals and movies, in a writing career spanning almost seventy years. He died in 2011, still singing.
