American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Robert Rawlins
• 1. The Transition Era: 1885 to World War I
• 2. Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
• 3. Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
• 4. George Gershwin (1898-1937)
• 5. Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
• 6. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
• 7. Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
• 8. Vincent Youmans (1898-1946) and Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984)
• 9. Burton Lane (1912- 1997), Hugh Martin (1914-2011), and Vernon Duke (1903-1969)
• 10. The Great Craftsmen
• Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
• Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)
• Harry Warren (1893-1981)
• Isham Jones (1894-1956)
• Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969)
• Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
• Fred Ahlert (1892-1953)
• Richard Whiting (1891-1938)
• Ray Noble (1907-1978)
• John Green (1908-1989)
• Rube Bloom (1902-1976)
• Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
• 11. Outstanding Individual Songs: 1920 to 1950
• 12. Additional Songs and Composers
• Index