Music from the American Century
Track Listings
| 1. Elite Syncopations/ Scott Joplin (3:22) |
| 2. Moonlight Bay/ The Mills Brothers (2:32) |
| 3. St. Louis Blues/ Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong (3:09) |
| 4. Over There / Arthur Fields (2:46) |
| 5. Livery Stable Blues/ Original Dixieland Jazz Band (3:05) |
| 6. A Spoonful Blues/ Charley Patton (3:11) |
| 7. The Man I Love / Fred Rich and Orchestra (3:06) |
| 8. Ol Man River / Paul Robeson (2:33) |
| 9. Anchored in Love / The Carter Family (2:02) |
| 10. Beyond the Blue Horizon / Jeanette MacDonald (2:20) |
| 11. Night and Day / Fred Astaire (3:24) |
| 12. Stormy Weather / Harold Arlen (3:15) |
| 13. Dust Bowl Refugee / Woody Guthrie (3:05) |
| 14. Tuxedo Junction / Glenn Miller and Orchestra (3:27) |
| 15. Wholly Cats / Benny Goodman with Count Basie (3:03) |
| 16. All or Nothing at All / Harry James with Frank Sinatra (2:56) |
| 17. Magenta Haze / Duke Ellington and Orchestra (3:01) |
| 18. All By Myself / Ella Fitzgerald (2:25) |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Music From the American Century, is a unique double compact disc that was produced in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. It includes music from American masters of the 20th Century (from Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong to James Brown and Marvin Gaye). The American Century is a groundbreaking exhibition currently on view that explores the evolution of American identity over the past one hundred years, as seen through the eyes of the nation's artists and their influence on American culture.
The release will coincide and celebrate the second cycle of the exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, which will run from September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000. This exhibition is an exciting experience and includes all mediums of artistic expression. Just as the exhibition focuses on great achievements in art, this CD mirrors the experience and focuses on Popular Music through the 20th century. more
Enjoy this unique CD, that represents popular music and its development, as one of the most significant American art forms over the past one hundred years. Even though the image (graphic design, painting and illustration, photography, motion pictures, and television) was the centurys dominant mode of mass communication for the past 100 years, the melodies and lyrics of American popular song, are as engraved in our collective memory as any image from the past century. Individual songs evoke private and shared memories and conjure up other times, places, and feelings, personal and social, real or imagined. The American Century is certainly a century of music.
American popular music begins the twentieth century with the story-songs of Tin Pan Alley (Moonlight Bay), which linger through World War I. These songs give way to leaner, more sophisticated songs in the 1920s (The Man I Love, All By Myself) as the American middle and upper-middle classes experience for the first time world-class prosperity and status. As the century progresses, the scope of American music expands to encompass many styles and genres, although certain themes do reappear.
American popular song also tends to examine the fullest possible thematic range, and each of these ideas, emotions, and situations encounters its opposite, somewhere within the American songbook. Related to this dualism in American popular music is a tendency toward contrariness, from the depths of the Great Depression shines the optimism of Beyond the Blue Horizon, in the midst of 1950s plenty broods the anger and anxiety of Blue Suede Shoes.
None of this music is composed or consumed in a vacuum; the culture produces the music, and the music alters the culture. Similarly, one form of music alters the mainstream only to become assimilated within it (like swing jazz, when it evolved into the pop music of the 1930s and 1940s.)
In the 1950s, rock & roll drew on swing, blues, and country to grow into the overwhelmingly dominant pop music of the second half of the century.
This collection is by no means a definitive anthology of American popular music, But enjoy it, as it does present the reality of the past century: music is a shared phenomenon. Over time and space, verbal images, grooves, licks, melodies, and rhythms have been passed back and forth, from musician to musician, who borrow, lend, adapt, and refine, to create the infinite manifestations of American music.
Executive Producer: Joel Goodman Producer: Barry Sherman Music Licensing: Trish Ireland Mastered by Nick Prout Design: Dave Bett
Music from the American Century: Whitney Museum of American Art,Various Artists,Scott Joplin,Louis Armstrong,James Brown,The Mills Brothers,Bessie Smith,Museum Music, Inc.
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