Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
Autor: Thomas P. Walsh
Número de Páginas: 439In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh surveyed a wide array of sources: published songs listed in WorldCat, online catalogs of sheet music collections of university libraries and major public and private research libraries, bibliographic compilations of popular music, periodical literature on music and popular culture, published collections of “soldier songs,” and sheet music listed for sale on commercial auction websites. The guide also identifies from song registrations in the U.S. Copyright Office’s Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) forty-eight years of musical compositions relating to the Philippines. By systematically going through the CCE, year by year, Walsh discovered hundreds of unpublished songs written by average Americans expressing their varied views about historical events and personal experiences in America’s faraway Southeast Asian colony. Although most of the chronologically listed songs will be new to scholars and students, songs like “Ma Little...