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31. Tin Pan Alley

    An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

    By David A. Jasen

    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 songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest...

    Published June 24th 2003 by Routledge
32. Harry B. Smith

    Dean of American Librettists

    By John Franceschina

    Series: Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

    Published June 22nd 2003 by Routledge
33. Soho

    The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony

    By Richard Kostelanetz

    Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely unplanned--could not last forever; the author shows how market...

    Published May 8th 2003 by Routledge
34. Index to Poetry in Music

    By Carol June Bradley

    Published March 13th 2003 by Routledge
35. David Braham

    The American Offenbach

    By John Franceschina

    Series: Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

    Published December 25th 2002 by Routledge
36. Hollywood Songsters

    Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing: A Biographical Dictionary

    By James Parish, Michael Pitts

    For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters...

    Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge
37. William B. Gill

    From the Goldfields to Broadway

    By Kurt Ganzl

    Series: Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

    Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge
38. Music and Marx

    Ideas, Practice, Politics

    Edited by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

    Series: Critical and Cultural Musicology

    Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge
39. Leslie Stuart

    Composer of Florodora

    By Andrew Lamb

    Series: Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

    Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in...

    Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge
40. Lydia Thompson

    Queen of Burlesque

    By Kurt Ganzl

    Series: Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

    Published April 2nd 2002 by Routledge