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The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
Michael Pitts
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Description for The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
Hardback. The Rise of the Crooners examines the historical trends and events that led to the emergence of the crooning style. The lives and careers of six pioneers of the style-Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Gene Austin, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Marvin, and Nick Lucas-are covered at length. Series: Studies & Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AS; AVG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee—these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition. Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth century, intermingling with jazz and fronting the big band craze of the thirties and forties. Crooners spurred the rise of radio as home staple and the Golden Age of film musicals. When commercial television became a viable commodity, crooners anchored perhaps the first TV programming innovation, the variety show. It took the cataclysmic aesthetic ... Read more
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee—these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition. Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth century, intermingling with jazz and fronting the big band craze of the thirties and forties. Crooners spurred the rise of radio as home staple and the Golden Age of film musicals. When commercial television became a viable commodity, crooners anchored perhaps the first TV programming innovation, the variety show. It took the cataclysmic aesthetic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
Studies & Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810840812
SKU
V9780810840812
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About Michael Pitts
Michael R. Pitts is the author or co-author of more than 30 books on entertainment. Dr. Frank W. Hoffman is Professor of Library Science at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Reviews for The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
In The Rise of the Crooner, music historian Michael R. Pitts and Drank W. Hoffmann...are ably assisted by Dick Carty and Jim Bedoian to present an articulate, scholarly, informative, and engaging historical treatise surveying the trends, fads, events, and personalities that created this popular form of American music and its lasting impact on popular American culture... The Rise of the ... Read more