Jerome Kern: His Life and Music
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In what has become the biography of the father of American musical theatre, Gerald Bordman demonstrates a keen understanding and sympathy for Kern the man, as well as Kern the musician. No... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195065743
ISBN13:9780195065749
Release Date:November 1990
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The author is a distinguished historian of American musicals. In this volume we learn not only about Jerome Kern but about the theater and music industry from the early and mid-twentieth century. Bordman has a full command of the primary and secondary sources, and it's doubtful that any other historian will attempt a more exhaustive Kern biogaphy. But there's the fault: the story is overwhelmed by details. It takes a dedicated reader to wade through the barrage of facts about Kern and the theater. I made it, but many others, I'm afraid, won't. The word "definitive," controversial as it is, may surely be used in this case. Bordman is a fine writer as well as researcher, and this helps enormously.
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