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Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture

Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture

Prigozy, Ruth
Raubicheck, Walter
Dick, Bernard F.

Hardcover

Entertainment & Performing ArtsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1580462618
ISBN13: 9781580462617
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Bing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and colleagues.

Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture is the first serious study of the singer/actor's art and of his centrality to the history of twentieth-century popular music, film, and the entertainment industry. The volume uses a wide range of scholarly and cultural perspectives to explore Crosby's unique and lasting achievements. It also includes tributes and reminiscences from Bing's widow Kathryn, his grandson Steve, his record producer Ken Barnes, and one of his most popular successors, Michael Feinstein. Other contributors include Gary Giddins, the author of a widely acclaimed recent biography of the singer, and Will Friedwald, the acknowledged expert on the developmentof the great American songbook.

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