In this innovative resource guide, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a
unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American
musical compositions relating in some way to the Philippines during
the American colonial era in the country from 1898 to 1946. In
preparing the guide, Walsh surveyed a wide array of sources: published
songs listed in WorldCat, the online catalogs of sheet music
collections of university libraries and major public and private
research libraries, bibliographic compilations of popular music, the
periodical literature on music and popular culture, published
collections of “soldier songs,” and sheet music listed for sale on
commercial auction websites. In addition, for the first time in the
preparation of a research bibliography, the guide also identifies,
from song registrations in the US Copyright Office’s Catalog of
Copyright Entries (CCE), 48 years of musical compositions relating to
the Philippines. In systematically going through the CCE, year by
year, Walsh discovered hundreds of unpublished songs written by
average Americans expressing their varied views about historical
events and their personal experiences relating to America’s distant
colony in Southeast Asia. Of the 1,400 chronologically-listed songs
included in the guide, most will be new materials for scholars and
students alike to study. Songs like “Ma Little Cebu Maid,” “My
Own Manila Sue,” “My Fillipino Belle,” “Down on the Philippine
Isles,” “Beside the Pasig River,” “My Philippino Pearl,” and
“I Want a Filipino Man” were all published and widely promoted by
Tin Pan Alley and were performed on stage and listened to at home on
records and piano rolls across America. The lyrics often illustrate
popular American attitudes, from shrilly patriotic numbers about the
Battle of Manila Bay and, later, the Fall of Bataan and Corregidor to
wistful, romantic, and even charming reminiscences of happy days spent
in “old” Manila to racially charged pieces rife with deprecating
stereotypes of Filipinos. This guide reprints a number of these
hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the
first time in over a century. In addition to including the lyrics to a
number of the songs, the guide also provides copyright registration
numbers and dates of registration for many of the published and
unpublished songs. Also provided are some 700 “notes” on
particular songs and over 750 links that provide direct access to
bibliographic records or even digital copies of the sheet music in
libraries and collections. Exhaustive in its scope, Tin Pan Alley and
the Philippines is an invaluable research resource for scholars and
students of American history, Pacific studies, popular culture, and
ethnomusicology.
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780810886094
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Scarecrow Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter