Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-8608-7 (ISBN)
Although most of the chronologically listed songs will be new to scholars and students, songs like “Ma Little Cebu Maid,” “My Own Manila Sue,” “My Fillipino Belle,” “Down on the Philippine Isles,” “Beside the Pasig River,” “My Philippino Pearl,” and “I Want a Filipino Man” were all published and widely promoted by Tin Pan Alley, as well as performed on stage, and listened to on records and piano rolls across America. The lyrics often illustrate popular American attitudes, from shrilly patriotic numbers about the Battle of Manila Bay and the later Fall of Bataan and Corregidor to wistful, romantic, and even charming reminiscences of happy days spent in “old” Manila to racially charged pieces rife with deprecating stereotypes of Filipinos. The book reprints a number of hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the first time in more than a century. It also provides copyright registration numbers and dates of registration for many published and unpublished songs. Finally, more than 700 notes on particular songs and numerous links provide direct access to bibliographic records or digital copies of sheet music in libraries and collections.
Exhaustive in scope, Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of American history, Pacific studies, popular culture, and ethnomusicology.
Thomas P. Walsh served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in southern Luzon in the Philippines in the mid-sixties and lived and worked in the Philippines for almost twenty-five years. His professional experiences include senior programming positions with the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa and Cairo and with the Philippines Desk of the Asian Development Bank in Manila. While resident in Manila, he was a long-time Board Member of the American Historical Collection Foundation. He holds graduate degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and from the Asian Studies Program of the University of Hawaii. His publications include a research guide and bibliography on martial law in the Philippines and articles on Philippine local politics and government and Philippine popular culture. His personal library of Filipiniana is one of the largest private collections in the United States.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.4.2013 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 767 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8108-8608-1 / 0810886081 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8108-8608-7 / 9780810886087 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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