Tin Pan Opera

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195338928
• ISBN13: 9780195338928
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"