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

by Michael A. Amundson

Book Overview

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"