A list of puns related to "Great American Songbook"
For those not aware, the Great American Songbook is a term informally used for the most popular and frequently recorded traditional songs of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, generally in the genres of jazz and traditional pop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook
Taken as a body of music, what is their contribution to later genres of pop, and are there any aspects of traditional pop that have made their way into today's popular songs?
Do any other countries have an equivalent concept? Is there a Great Japanese or German Songbook? I never heard of one.
Is it really possible for a genre to be called "traditional" when its heyday was only forty years?
I was reading a summary of a recent interview with Bob Dylan: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/23/bob-dylan-stereophonics-interview-triplicate
And when asked about whether his recent work with the Great American Songbook would influence his own songwriting he is quoted as saying: “I doubt it. These melodies are so structured in musical theory, they’re so tricky with time signatures and shifting melodies, that it’s beyond me."
Does anyone know what he is talking about? I was under the impression that the Great American Songbook was mostly pretty straightforward 4/4 with the occasional 3/4.
My husband is a grad student/assistant director of a campus writing center, and he came home the other day from their end-of-year party and showed me a video. One of the faculty members had brought her guitar, and they were having a sing-along. Knowing I’d want to see it, he had recorded Let It Be.
In all my late-30s cynicism, I was initially surprised that almost everybody knew the words and was singing along. But then I reminded myself that I’m not 80 years old, and that “kids today” (tongue in cheek) know these songs not only because maybe they’re Beatles fans, but also because they’re standards. They’re part of the American songbook now, just like Over the Rainbow, or Singin’ in the Rain, or Georgia on My Mind. Obviously people on this subreddit already know this, but they’re not just an old band with a lot of great songs. They’ve shaped our consciousness with regard to music and songwriting; they span generation, gender, race, nationality, and any other petty device we might use to divide ourselves.
What other Beatles songs do you think are part of the new American songbook? I’d put Yesterday, Hey Jude, and Ticket to Ride on the list.
Hi everyone,
I'm at a bit of an impasse with a new feature script and I've been lurking long enough that I felt I should offer my throat to the wolf. I was a Nicholl & AFF semifinalist two years ago and am hoping to get there again. I've also done some contest reading so I don't take the solicitation of someone's time and energy lightly!
Two lovers put their dreams of country music stardom on hold as they struggle with homelessness, addiction, and impending parenthood in 1970s Nashville.
A reader recently described the film as A STAR IS BORN meets REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. I'm cool with that description. Anyway, honest feedback would be so greatly appreciated. My email is on the cover if you'd like to contact me more directly with any notes. As I said, I'm struggling with the next step in my rewrite so I'm hoping to get the opinion of some fresh eyes. Thank you all in advance for any feedback!
I’m trying to find out the ticket prices for the American songbook concerts at Lincoln Center. What have you paid in the past? I just want to know what I’m looking at before they go on sale, and I can’t find a reference for past or current prices anywhere. Thanks!
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