Amore

The Story of Italian American Song

by: Mark Rotella

Amore
Author: Mark Rotella

Publisher: North Point Press

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 06 September 2010

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ISBN: 0865476985 ISBN 13: 9780865476981

Amore by Mark Rotella

A celebration of the 'Italian decade' - the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett, among others, won the hearts of the American public with a smooth, stylish, classy brand of pop. Top page

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"Amore" is Mark Rotella's celebration of the 'Italian decade' - the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett, among others, won the hearts of the American public with a smooth, stylish, classy brand of pop. In Rotella's vivid telling, the stories behind forty Italian American classics (from "O Sole Mio", "Night and Day", and "Mack the Knife" to "Volare" and "I Wonder Why") show how a glorious musical tradition became the sound track of postwar America and the expression of a sense of style that we still cherish. Rotella follows the music from the opera houses and piazzas of southern Italy, to the barrooms of the Bronx and Hoboken, to the Copacabana, the Paramount Theatre, and the Vegas Strip. He shows us the hardworking musicians whose voices were to become ubiquitous on jukeboxes and the radio and whose names - some anglicized, some not - have become bywords for Italian American success, even as they were dogged by stereotypes and prejudice. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: North Point Press

City: Berkeley, California

Pages: 304

More info: height 152 mm width 229 mm weight 540 gr thickness 30 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 782.4216408951073 Library of Congress Subject: Popular music - United States - History and criticism

Record updated at: 08 March, 2013 time: 11:19


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