Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era

by Larry Hamberlin

Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familiarity with opera was still a part of American "cultural literacy." During the Ragtime era, hundreds of humorous Tin Pan Alley songs centered on operatic subjects-either directly quoting operas or alluding to operatic characters and vocal stars of the time. These songs brilliantly captured the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190632194
• ISBN13: 9780190632199
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"