JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary</i>)

American Songwriters contains the biographies of over 140 American composers and lyricists of popular music including jazz, Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood film, Broadway musicals, minstrelsy, vaudeville, folk, country and western, and rock. Beyond just biographical information, Ewen includes the performance histories of over 5000 songs discussed in the biographies. On average each biography is three pages long and is in a double column, small type format.

For those interested in the jazz standards, many, if not most of the composers and lyricists you would want to read about are here, perhaps more than in any other collection short of multi-volume reference sets.

David Ewen is a prolific writer on American song with books such as American Songwriters, Great Men of American Popular Song, Popular American Composers from Revolutionary Times to the Present, George Gershwin: His Journey to Greatness, and other titles.

About the Bookstore

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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.

Some of our books may be found at Amazon for two or three dollars!

The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are listed in this bookstore and may be considered the site bibliography.

The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked, please let us know the title and how it supports the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.

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