American SongbookMichael Ruby

American Songbook

Name: American Songbook
ISBN: 9781937027001

Michael Ruby · 2013

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"The poems in American Songbook are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th-century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit "What a Wonderful World" to Hattie Ellis's "Desert Blues," a little-known Lomax prison recording. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R & B, rock, disco and hip hop."--