Talking Machine West, 2: A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley's Western Recordings, 1902-1918

(Part of the American Popular Music Series Series)

by Michael A. Amundson

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Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America's first western music craze predates these "singing cowboys" by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines.

The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080615604X

ISBN13:9780806156040

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:3.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 8.9" x 11.2"

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Arts, Music & Photography History Music

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