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Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song Decker, Todd (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song
Decker, Todd (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?: The Lives of an American Song tells the almost eighty-year performance history of a great popular song. Examining over two hundred recorded and filmed versions of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic song, the book reveals the power of performers to remake one popular song into many different guises.
256 pages, 15 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 17, 2014 |
| Original release date | 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199389186 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 163 × 20 mm · 462 g |
| Language | English |