• Home
  • Search
  • Browse Collections
  • My Account
  • About
  • DC Network Digital Commons Network™
Skip to main content
ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University

ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University

  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • My Account
  • < Previous Event
  • Next Event >
  •  

Home > Conferences > POPULAR_MUSIC > 2009 > NOV13 > 6

Popular Music in the Mercer Era, 1910-1970
 

Event Title

Singers and Jazz Instrumentalists As Interpreters of the Popular Song

Presenter Information

Geoffrey J. Haydon, Georgia State University

Time/Date

11-13-2009 2:00 PM

Abstract

Dr. Haydon will look at America's Golden Age of Popular Music with a sampling of songs from some of the great songwriters and lyricists of the 1920's, 30's, 40's and 50's. Selections will include but not be limited to Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer. We will look at how singers use both the music and lyric to interpret these songs. Then we will discuss how jazz musicians have adopted the same repertoire using it as a vehicle for their own creative aspirations.

Comments

Presented in the Second Plenary Session: Influence and Interpretation of Popular Music

Video footage of presentation

Download

DOWNLOADS

Since May 20, 2010

COinS
 
Nov 13th, 2:00 PM

Singers and Jazz Instrumentalists As Interpreters of the Popular Song

Dr. Haydon will look at America's Golden Age of Popular Music with a sampling of songs from some of the great songwriters and lyricists of the 1920's, 30's, 40's and 50's. Selections will include but not be limited to Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer. We will look at how singers use both the music and lyric to interpret these songs. Then we will discuss how jazz musicians have adopted the same repertoire using it as a vehicle for their own creative aspirations.

 
 

Advanced Search

  • Notify me via email or RSS

Browse

  • Collections
  • Disciplines
  • Authors

Authors

  • Author FAQ
 
Digital Commons

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright