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Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

Product Description: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country--it was where songwriting became a profession, and where songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Covering the full history of Tin Pan Alley, from its humble beginnings in the 1860s to its demise following World War II, this is the first resource tool to identify its major publishers, composers, lyricists, singers, dances, and bands...read more

By David A. Jasen

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Hardcover:

9780415938778 | Routledge, June 1, 2003, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Over 350 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history of American popular song from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century to World War II, including coverage of composers, music publishers, styles, and songs.

Paperback:

9781138870215 | Routledge, June 29, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country--it was where songwriting became a profession, and where songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars.

A Century of American Popular Music

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By David A. Jasen

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Paperback:

9780415866804 | Routledge, September 3, 2013, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: First published in 2002.

Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography

Product Description: Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography is the definitive reference work for this important popular form of music that flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s, and was one of the key predecessors of jazz. It collects for the first time entries on all the important composers and performers, and descriptions of their works; a complete listing of all known published ragtime compositions, even those self-published and known only in single copies; and a complete discography from the cylinder era to today...read more

By David A. Jasen

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Hardcover:

9780415978620 | Routledge, May 15, 2007, cover price $170.00

Paperback:

9781138011793 | Reprint edition (Routledge, December 23, 2014), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography is the definitive reference work for this important popular form of music that flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s, and was one of the key predecessors of jazz.

R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country

Presents brief biographies of musical innovators in blues, jazz, and country music along with original illustrations by R. Crumb.

By R. Crumb, David A. Jasen, Richard Nevins and Terry Zwigoff (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9780810930865 | Har/com edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, November 1, 2006), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents brief biographies of musical innovators in blues, jazz, and country music along with original illustrations by R.

Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930

Product Description: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written," this work documents the careers of songwriters like James A...read more

By David A. Jansen, David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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9780415977043 | Routledge, October 1, 2005, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song.

Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz

This text tells the stories of the lives of eight figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton. It also tells how ragtime and popular dance music fed into and changed the development of early jazz.

By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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9780415936415 | Routledge, October 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Offers portraits of eight African American musicians from ragtime and jazz who influenced twentieth century American music, including Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Willie 'the Lion' Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong.

Paperback:

9780415936422 | Routledge, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers portraits of eight African American musicians from ragtime and jazz who influenced twentieth century American music, including Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Willie 'the Lion' Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong.

P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master

By David A. Jasen

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Paperback:

9780825672750 | Omnibus Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $19.95

A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999)

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By David A. Jasen

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Hardcover:

9780415937009 | Routledge, May 1, 2002, cover price $200.00

Uncollected Wodehouse

Product Description: The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)

By David A. Jasen (editor) and P. G. Wodehouse

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9781558820326 | Intl Polygonics Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of some of the earlier works of one of the century's great comic writers includes previously uncollected articles, short stories, spoofs, accounts of public school life, as well as the only mystery story he ever wrote.

9781558821194, titled "The Uncollected Wodehouse" | Intl Polygonics Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)

That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast

Product Description: A lively cultural history of the music that captivated America. Beginning with Scott Joplin's million-selling hit, Maple Leaf Rag published in 1899, the authors take you on a tour of American ragtime composing and publishing. Along the way, you will read the story of hundreds of composers - men and women, black and white, young and old - who took that ragtime beat from small-town America to the stages of Broadway and Carnegie Hall - and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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9780825672330 | Schirmer Trade Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A lively cultural history of the music that captivated America.

That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from the United States

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By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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Hardcover:

9780028647432 | Music Sales Corp, November 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | also contains Quick & Easy Diabetic Menus

Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930

By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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9780825672286, titled "Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930" | Schirmer Trade Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song.

9780028647425, titled "Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930" | Schirmer Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | also contains An Introduction to 3d Autocad | About this edition: Details the contributions that Black musicians have made to American popular music

Beale Street and Other Classic Blues: 39 Works, 1901-1921

Product Description: This treasury of classic blues includes 38 songs and instrumental pieces from the first two decades of the twentieth century â the era that witnessed the birth and initial popularity of the blues. Written by such masters as the legendary W...read more

By David A. Jasen (editor)

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Paperback:

9780486401836, titled "Beale Street and Other Classic Blues: 38 Works, 1901-1921" | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, March 24, 1998), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This treasury of classic blues includes 38 songs and instrumental pieces from the first two decades of the twentieth century â the era that witnessed the birth and initial popularity of the blues.

Ragtime Jubilee: 42 Piano Gems, 1911-21

Product Description: The decade 1911–21 was the booming adolescence of ragtime. A dozen or so years had passed since the first ragtime publications, and this ear-catching, toe-tapping piano style was gradually coming into its full flowering. Driving this evolution was the increasing interest of a new breed of composer-pianists whose involvement refreshed old ragtime forms and contents and raised keyboard technique to new levels...read more

By David A. Jasen (editor)

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9780486299464 | Dover Pubns, July 10, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The decade 1911–21 was the booming adolescence of ragtime.

Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

By David A. Jasen (editor) and P. G. Wodehouse

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9780486297170 | Dover Pubns, July 10, 1997, cover price $8.95

Cakewalks, Two-Steps and Trots for Solo Piano: 34 Popular Works from the Dance-Craze Era

By David A. Jasen (editor)

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Paperback:

9780486297088 | Dover Pubns, July 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody: And Other Favorite Song Hits 1918-1919

Product Description: Original sheet music and covers for 40 beloved favorites, including After You've Gone, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby, and 36 other Golden Oldies. For sing-alongs, family get-togethers, parties, and other events.

By David A. Jasen (editor)

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9780486294216 | Dover Pubns, April 14, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Original sheet music and covers for 40 beloved favorites, including After You've Gone, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby, and 36 other Golden Oldies.

Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson & Five Generations of Americanexperimental Composera

Product Description: During the '50s and '60s, hundreds of recording artists--from the well-known to the obscure--jumped on the country music bandwagon. Drawing on his years of research, personal interviews, and rare recordings and documents, Escott brings to life a score of musical innovators, telling their stories and reinstating their place in American musical history...read more

By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones

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Hardcover:

9780825672309 | Jeananlee Schilling, August 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: During the '50s and '60s, hundreds of recording artists--from the well-known to the obscure--jumped on the country music bandwagon.

Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times : The Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956

Product Description: A must-have reference book of this great genre in American pop music.

By David A. Jasen

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Hardcover:

9781556110993 | Donald I Fine, October 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Celebrates the prolific body of music born of Tin Pan alley and its impact on American cultural life

Paperback:

9781556111686 | Reprint edition (Donald I Fine, October 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A must-have reference book of this great genre in American pop music.

Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History

By David A. Jasen and Trebor Jay Tichenor

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9780486259222 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, April 1, 1989), cover price $17.95

Alexander's Ragtime Band and Other Favorite Song Hits, 1901-1911

Product Description: Fifty vintage popular songs including "Some of These Days," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," many more. Reprinted from original editions. Introduction.

By David A. Jasen (editor)

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9780486253312 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fifty vintage popular songs including "Some of These Days," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," many more.

Ragtime Gems

Product Description: Here is a choice selection of 25 of the most famous rags, several of which cannot be found elsewhere. Written during ragtime's golden age from 1904 to 1910, these melodies include three of Scott Joplin's finest works â Searchlight Rag, Rose Leaf Rag, and Fig Leaf Rag â plus songs by Tin Pan Alley's hottest composers of the day: George Botsford, Harry Armstrong, and Egbert Van Alstyne...read more

By David A. Jasen

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9780486252483 | Dover Pubns, December 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here is a choice selection of 25 of the most famous rags, several of which cannot be found elsewhere.

The Eighteen-Carat Kid, and Other Stories

Stories tell of a wealthy American boy pursued by kidnappers, a young girl's attempts to influence a cricket match, a dreaded poetry contest, and the famous Swiss archer, William Tell

By David A. Jasen and P. G. Wodehouse

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Hardcover:

9780826400123 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Stories tell of a wealthy American boy pursued by kidnappers, a young girl's attempts to influence a cricket match, a dreaded poetry contest, and the famous Swiss archer, William Tell

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