Pan Alley

Jazz Heaven (1929) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Jan. 31, 2015

In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a boarding house where he falls in love with a pretty young woman. When the two are discovered trysting in the same room, the landlady tosses them out on their ears. To help pay for his back rent, the vindictive landlady keeps his piano. Her husband attempts to steal it away, but accidentally drops it down the stairs and smashes it into a gillion pieces. Fortunately, his new love works for two zany music publishers who begin selling the writer's songs which become hits.

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Various Artists - Luxury Lounge Bar (Lounge Collection) (2015) Music

Posted by vItOrrEs2009 at March 17, 2015

V. A. - Luxury Lounge Bar (Lounge Collection) (2015)
Label: Bright Drops Music | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 58:44 min | 135 mb
Downtempo, Lounge, Chill Out

Lounge singers have a lengthy history stretching back to the decades of the early twentieth century. The somewhat derisive term lounge lizard was coined then, and less well known lounge singers have often been ridiculed as dinosaurs of past eras and parodied for their smarmy delivery of standards. In any event, these lounge singers, perhaps performing in a hotel or cocktail bar, are usually accompanied by one or two other musicians, and they favor cover songs composed by others, especially pop standards, many deriving from the days of Tin Pan Alley.

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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech (Repost) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by manamba13 at Feb. 10, 2015

The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech by Irving Lewis Allen
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0195075919 | 320 Pages | PDF | 20 MB

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

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Various Artists – Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music Part 1 (2014) Music

Posted by d'Avignon at March 3, 2015

Various Artists – Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music Part 1 (2014)

Label: Bear Family | cat. no. BCD 17401 CP

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VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 1 (2014) Music

Posted by Pisulik at March 5, 2015

VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 1 (2014)
Folk, Country | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 03:22:42 | 482 MB
Label: Bear Family | Release Year: 2014

While some observers often see Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor as the founders of America's contemporary singer-songwriter movement, the tradition actually dates back to the mid-19th century. The Hutchison Family of Milford, New Hampshire toured the United States singing religious and secular songs supporting numerous populist causes. In the years before World War I, Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin refashioned traditional songs and hymns into biting anthems for the Industrial Workers of the World.

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Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist by Philip Furia eBooks & eLearning

Posted by thingska at March 26, 2015

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The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) Movies

Posted by fekmax at April 19, 2015

Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta, "The Cat and the Fiddle", produced by famed impresario, Jules Daudet. Victor's focus in life changes when he meets Shirley Sheridan, a New Yorker just arrived in Brussels, she who moves into the pensione next to his own.

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VA - Jazz Inspiration: Big Band Jazz (2011) Music

Posted by TmanHome at March 10, 2015

VA - Jazz Inspiration: Big Band Jazz (2011)
Jazz | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 70 min | 161 MB
Label: Blue Note Records | Rel: 2011

Harlem rhythm, New Orleans brass quartets and Southern orchestras had been knocking on the doors of American popular music since its creation. By the 1900s, all three sounds combined in the heart of Tin Pan Alley and mainstream America. In the mid 1920s, dances such as the Fox Trot, The Shimmy, The Black Bottom and The Varsity were sweeping America. One dance in particular epitomized America during this decade: The Charleston. James P. Johnson wrote "Charleston" in a stride style, which stresses a strong "swinging" bass while moving in a "stride fashion" with a single treble melody. Stride music, introduced in 1924 with "The Charleston", combined Ragtime syncopation and the smooth progression of jazz with livelier upbeat rhythms and a swinging bass that helped usher in the next decade's genre.

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Billie Holiday - This Is Billie Holiday (2015) Music

Posted by tomashass at April 28, 2015

Billie Holiday - This Is Billie Holiday (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 02:16:28 | 313 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Universal / Decca

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing.

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"Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and The Irish-Jewish Unconscious eBooks & eLearning

Posted by nebulae at April 4, 2015

Stephen Watt, ""Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and The Irish-Jewish Unconscious"
English | ISBN: 0190227958 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 5 MB

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