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Origins of a Song

Origins of a Song
Author: Jake Grogan
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1604337753

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David Bowie, tired of the rock 'n roll Los Angeles lifestyle, picks up and moves to West Berlin. Sixteen-year-old Rod Stewart sneaks into a music festival and has a coming-of-age experience. Paul McCartney dreams of his deceased mother. The rest is music history. For lyricists and listeners alike, Origins of a Song is the inspiring collection of 202 true stories behind the world’s greatest lyrics. Delve into the compelling real-life stories behind the world’s greatest lyrics with Origins of a Song. Featuring profiles of 202 musical masterpieces that span genres and generations, this book explores the inspiration and creative process behind each song. Get glimpses into the inception of these timeless tunes, and learn about the individual creative process for these songwriters and musicians. Origins of a Song will not only leave you with a different perspective on your favorite songs, but it will also have you inspired to start crafting some yourself! Author Jake Grogan is originally from Ellenville, New York, and currently resides in Queens. He has a BA from Fordham University, where he studied journalism. The story behind his favorite song, "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, inspired him to pursue Origins of a Song.


A History of Song

A History of Song
Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1961
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393005363

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Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.


The Making of Song Dynasty History

The Making of Song Dynasty History
Author: Charles Hartman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108834833

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A revisionist analysis of the major sources for Song history, explaining their master narrative as the product of political tension.


Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne
Author: M. J. Grant
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781800640702

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Life of a Song

Life of a Song
Author: Jan Dalley
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1473670470

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Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.


A History of Song

A History of Song
Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780758107237

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Anatomy of a Song

Anatomy of a Song
Author: Marc Myers
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 161185959X

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Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the direction of music. In Anatomy of a Song, writer and music historian Marc Myers tells the stories behind fifty rock, pop, R&B, country and reggae hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, the Clash, Smokey Robinson, Grace Slick, Roger Waters, Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello and many other leading artists reveal the inspirations, struggles and techniques behind their influential works .


Stolen Song

Stolen Song
Author: Eliza Zingesser
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501747630

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Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.


My Song is My Weapon

My Song is My Weapon
Author: Robbie Lieberman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252065255

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In the late 1940s a left-wing organization called People's Songs used their music as a battle cry for civil rights, civil liberties, and world peace. They were inspired by Woody Guthrie, led by Pete Seeger, and sponsored by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Paul Robeson among others. Many members of the group were involved in musical and political activities that spanned twenty years and encompassed sweeping changes in the American political arena. --Jacket


Sing a Song

Sing a Song
Author: Kelly Starling Lyons
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525516107

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"Lyons delivers the history of a song that has inspired generations of African-Americans to persist and resist in the face of racism and systemic oppression. . . . A heartfelt history of a historic anthem."--Publishers Weekly Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900. From that moment on, the song has provided inspiration and solace for generations of Black families. Mothers and fathers passed it on to their children who sang it to their children and grandchildren. Known as the Black National Anthem, it has been sung during major moments of the Civil Rights Movement and at family gatherings and college graduations. Inspired by this song's enduring significance, Kelly Starling Lyons and Keith Mallett tell a story about the generations of families who gained hope and strength from the song's inspiring words. --A CCBC Choice --A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People --An ALSC Notable Children's Book