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The Big Apple deserves exploration "through the poetry of its music" because, Groce says, "no [other] American city has inspired more music." Well, New Orleans might seriously challenge New York in songs per capita, but her point is well taken, considering the roster of music notables who have referenced the big burg, from George M. Cohan to Cole Porter to Billy Joel. Stars aside, Groce emphasizes the songs in such chapters as "Mass Transit in Song" and "Celebrating Broadway," which delightfully detail the tuneful specifics of life in the boroughs. In "New Yorkers in Love" --which doesn't have to be a frightening concept--she recalls such favorites as "Manhattan Serenade" and "She's Got a Great Big Army of Friends Since She Lives Near the Navy Yard." In "Crime and Punishment," she cites "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," among others. Many beautiful sheet-music covers colorfully illustrate this playful and--with such sidebar fare as a summary of "Brooklyn's Biggest Sex Scandal," involving that nineteenth-century Swaggart, Henry Ward Beecher--informative book. Mike Tribby
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No American city has inspired more music than the Big Apple. For more than 250 years, composers have sought to capture the sounds, energy, and sophistication of New York life in song. New York: Songs of the City introduces readers to the best-loved songs and most evocative music written about America's premier city. It also explores the significant role music, musicians, and musical life played in shaping and defining how the world imagines life in "The City That Never Sleeps."
The Big Apple deserves exploration "through the poetry of its music" because, Groce says, "no [other] American city has inspired more music." Well, New Orleans might seriously challenge New York in songs per capita, but her point is well taken, considering the roster of music notables who have referenced the big burg, from George M. Cohan to Cole Porter to Billy Joel. Stars aside, Groce emphasizes the songs in such chapters as "Mass Transit in Song" and "Celebrating Broadway," which delightfully detail the tuneful specifics of life in the boroughs. In "New Yorkers in Love" --which doesn't have to be a frightening concept--she recalls such favorites as "Manhattan Serenade" and "She's Got a Great Big Army of Friends Since She Lives Near the Navy Yard." In "Crime and Punishment," she cites "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," among others. Many beautiful sheet-music covers colorfully illustrate this playful and--with such sidebar fare as a summary of "Brooklyn's Biggest Sex Scandal," involving that nineteenth-century Swaggart, Henry Ward Beecher--informative book. Mike Tribby
Book Description
No American city has inspired more music than the Big Apple. For more than 250 years, composers have sought to capture the sounds, energy, and sophistication of New York life in song. New York: Songs of the City introduces readers to the best-loved songs and most evocative music written about America's premier city. It also explores the significant role music, musicians, and musical life played in shaping and defining how the world imagines life in "The City That Never Sleeps."
The lushly illustrated book features the lyrics from many of the more than 1,000 songs that have been written about New York City. Short samples of music are matched with period photographs of the evolving city and New York-related illustrations taken from sheet music covers and record album jackets. Drawing on years of research, the author serves as an engaging, informative, and highly readable guide for this urban musical tour.
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