The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs by Ken Bloom  (14)
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"Great" is the operative word here. Originally published five years ago ( LJ 11/1/84), this thesaurus-almanac-index-encyclopedia smorgasbord of popular American and English song information quickly became a reference mainstay, and the revised second edition is another cornucopia. The arrangement is virtually identical to the original but coverage has been extended through 1986 and increased somewhat to 11,000 songs. Among its ten sections, most notable are the year-by-year inventory from 1558 to 1986 of significant songs, the listing of songs delineated by performance medium (theater, film, radio, and television); the thesaurus of songs by subject, key word, and category; and, especially, the 258-page alphabetically arranged song-title catalog listing composer, lyricist, year of popularity, and recording artists. A new addition is the key lyric line index, which extracts 3025 tag lyric lines and the songs from which they are taken. Expensive, but an important acquisition for all libraries.
- Barry Miller, Austin P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"'Great' is the operative word here....An important acquisition for libraries."--Library Journal
"Those who have used the first edition of this superb reference book will be pleased that it has been updated a mere five years after its first appearance....Beautifully printed, nicely organized, carefully edited, and a joy to use."--American Reference Books Annual
"Students of the great corpus of English-language popular song literature could scarcely expect to find any reference tool more useful than the index at hand....The scope of songs included and the clarity of format combine to create an invaluable reference tool, one that should be a part of library collections of all sorts and sizes. The thesaurus will be particularly welcomed by any who have ever received a plaintive request for information on some song vaguely identified by only the most tenuous of data. The Great Song Thesaurus should stand as a cornerstone in the bibliography addressing popular music."--Sonneck Society Bulletin
"The review of the first edition of The Great Song Thesaurus characterized it as 'an invaluable source for any library with a popular music collection' and stated that it would 'also be extremely useful in general reference collections.' In view of the work's expanded coverage, wealth of information, and multiple types of access, the original recommendation can be strongly endorsed."--Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"In addition to being a valuable reference, this book makes great browsing; you can spend hours flipping from page to page, jogging your memory about this song or that song, and thinking up questions with which to stump your friends."--Show Music
Praise for the previous edition: "Listing more than 10,000 American and British popular songs by title, giving for each the year of greatest popularity, composer, lyricist, and often bits of history, this well-researched work is likely to become the first and only place most libraries will need to look for this information....An outstanding ready-reference tool."--Library Journal
"A unique and extremely useful reference book....Indispensable to both academic and public library collections of all sizes and levels."--Choice
"An invaluable source."--ALA Booklist
"An extremely valuable book, providing in one volume more information of its kind than any other book hitherto published."--Music Library Association Notes
"Students of the great corpus of English-language popular song literature could scarcely expect to find any reference tool more useful than the index at hand....The scope of songs included and the clarity of format combine to create an invaluable reference tool, one that should be part of library collections of all sorts and sizes. The thesaurus will be particularly welcomes by any who have ever received a plaintive request for information on some song vaguely indentified by only the most tenuous of data. The Great Song Thesaurus should stand as a cornerstone in the bibliography addressing popular music."--Douglas A. Lee, Vanderbilt University
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"Great" is the operative word here. Originally published five years ago ( LJ 11/1/84), this thesaurus-almanac-index-encyclopedia smorgasbord of popular American and English song information quickly became a reference mainstay, and the revised second edition is another cornucopia. The arrangement is virtually identical to the original but coverage has been extended through 1986 and increased somewhat to 11,000 songs. Among its ten sections, most notable are the year-by-year inventory from 1558 to 1986 of significant songs, the listing of songs delineated by performance medium (theater, film, radio, and television); the thesaurus of songs by subject, key word, and category; and, especially, the 258-page alphabetically arranged song-title catalog listing composer, lyricist, year of popularity, and recording artists. A new addition is the key lyric line index, which extracts 3025 tag lyric lines and the songs from which they are taken. Expensive, but an important acquisition for all libraries.
- Barry Miller, Austin P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"'Great' is the operative word here....An important acquisition for libraries."--Library Journal
"Those who have used the first edition of this superb reference book will be pleased that it has been updated a mere five years after its first appearance....Beautifully printed, nicely organized, carefully edited, and a joy to use."--American Reference Books Annual
"Students of the great corpus of English-language popular song literature could scarcely expect to find any reference tool more useful than the index at hand....The scope of songs included and the clarity of format combine to create an invaluable reference tool, one that should be a part of library collections of all sorts and sizes. The thesaurus will be particularly welcomed by any who have ever received a plaintive request for information on some song vaguely identified by only the most tenuous of data. The Great Song Thesaurus should stand as a cornerstone in the bibliography addressing popular music."--Sonneck Society Bulletin
"The review of the first edition of The Great Song Thesaurus characterized it as 'an invaluable source for any library with a popular music collection' and stated that it would 'also be extremely useful in general reference collections.' In view of the work's expanded coverage, wealth of information, and multiple types of access, the original recommendation can be strongly endorsed."--Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"In addition to being a valuable reference, this book makes great browsing; you can spend hours flipping from page to page, jogging your memory about this song or that song, and thinking up questions with which to stump your friends."--Show Music
Praise for the previous edition: "Listing more than 10,000 American and British popular songs by title, giving for each the year of greatest popularity, composer, lyricist, and often bits of history, this well-researched work is likely to become the first and only place most libraries will need to look for this information....An outstanding ready-reference tool."--Library Journal
"A unique and extremely useful reference book....Indispensable to both academic and public library collections of all sizes and levels."--Choice
"An invaluable source."--ALA Booklist
"An extremely valuable book, providing in one volume more information of its kind than any other book hitherto published."--Music Library Association Notes
"Students of the great corpus of English-language popular song literature could scarcely expect to find any reference tool more useful than the index at hand....The scope of songs included and the clarity of format combine to create an invaluable reference tool, one that should be part of library collections of all sorts and sizes. The thesaurus will be particularly welcomes by any who have ever received a plaintive request for information on some song vaguely indentified by only the most tenuous of data. The Great Song Thesaurus should stand as a cornerstone in the bibliography addressing popular music."--Douglas A. Lee, Vanderbilt University
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