The Voices That Are Gone Jon W. Finson (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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The Voices That Are Gone by Jon W. Finson (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. Presenting a guided tour of topically arranged, select songs, he points out the most important landmarks, as well as lesser sights that provide colour and context, and obscure but treasurable parts of the scenery previously overlooked.

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The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song by Jon W. Finson (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Jon Finson views the mores and values of 19th-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. Presenting a guided tour of topically arranged, select songs, he points out the most important landmarks, as well as lesser sights that provide colour and context, and obscure but treasurable parts of the scenery previously overlooked.

The Voices That Are Gone Reviews

Finson's work represents a superior addition to a body of literature...--American Music Finson's history of the racial, societal, and theatrical factors that went into minstrel show stereotypes is a brilliant and perceptive overview....he arranges it in a framework that enlarges and brightens our understanding of the human forces at play in the fields of song.--Notes Though written to be accessible to general readers, Finson's book is an important scholarly work as well, a `must have' for college and university libraries at all levels.--Choice Finson's work represents a superior addition to a body of literature...--American Music Finson's history of the racial, societal, and theatrical factors that went into minstrel show stereotypes is a brilliant and perceptive overview....He arranges it in a framework that enlarges and brightens our understanding of the human forces at play in the fields of song.--Notes

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Sku

GOR012107703

ISBN 13

9780195113822

ISBN 10

0195113829

Title

The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song by Jon W. Finson (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Author

Jon W. Finson (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1997-10-16

Number of pages

350

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