Presents Dal Richards' memories of the stars and the wannabes, the hustlers and bootleggers and hat-check chicks, all of whom paraded through his life in the days when Vancouver's night-club scene rivalled San Francisco's and Hollywood's big-name performers made it a regular tour stop.

This spoof guide to the culture of the Spice Girls tells you everything you need to know about achieving chart-topping fame and fanatical adoration. Meet the Spices who never made it, delve into the top-secret pages of a Spice's diary and sift through the lyrics which didn't come up to scratch.

Revisits the way the people of Britain lived during the World War II. This book addresses rationing, air raids, adjusting to loved ones being away while trying to maintain as normal a routine as possible alongside family life, education, evacuation, the royal family, sport, commerce and entertainment. It reveals the fashions of the time.

Covers the bands, the band leaders, the musicians, the vocalists, interviews with various Big Band Leaders and their vocalists. This book presents bands of England and Europe, the list of various known bands 1920-1980's, Big Band organizations, clubs, and publications.

This study explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popular concerts, and analyzes the way in which popular cultural practice was shaped by, and in turn, helped shape social and economic structures.

Contends that popular music can be properly understood only through interdisciplinary study methods. This book presents a critical analysis of issues from the political economy of popular music, its history and ethnography, to its aesthetics and ideology.

This is the story of the little girl with the magnificent voice from Savannah, Georgie who sang out to America with the Big Bands of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. For two years Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra, who won the title Best Boy and Girl Singer of the era, sang shoulder to shoulder on stages across America, singing: Let's Get Away from It All; Snootie Little Cutie; and Oh, Look At Me Now.

Exploring the world of male vocalists, this text offers interviews or vignettes with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Eddie Fisher and Andy Williams. It is a companion volume to The Best Damn Trumpet Player and The Song Stars

A must read for the countless Glenn Miller Orchestra fans who still cherish his music. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Glen Miller's life and the 60th anniversary of his disappearance over the English Channel in late 1944, this is the tribute book which Glenn Miller fans all over the world have been waiting for, a compendium of authentic stories, interviews, over 150 photographs and ...

The Art History of Love. A definitive study of Tango in all its forms from the world-renowned Yale historian.

A selection of one hundred song airs and dance music suitable for most instruments.

Contributing to the field of dance accompaniment, this title presents a selection of model musical solutions to the challenges presented by ballet classes. Every selection is annotated with an explanation of why the music was chosen, what it might be suitable for, details of title, subtitle, composer, and more.

This book looks at the anatomy of a big band radio station with the broadcasters and the songwriters. Chapters cover the early dance bands of Paul Whiteman, Leo Reisman, Fred Waring, Casa Loma, Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Fletcher Henderson, Vincent Lopez, Wayne King and covers vignettes about the ballrooms and pavillions where the bands performed the music of America's Golden Age. Max Wirz of Swiss

Responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene.

A delightful and diverse collection of songs from Scotland.

This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows ..