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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Irving Berlin; Irving Berlin; Irving Berlin |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurence Bergreen |
ISBN: | 0306806754 9780306806759 |
OCLC Number: | 33865023 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York, NY : Viking, ©1990. "Chronology": pages 587-600. |
Awards: | Winner of Ralph J. Gleason Award 1991 Winner of ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award 1991 |
Description: | xiv, 658 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Discovery (18881914) * Lost Souls * Prince and Pauper * Tin Pan Alley * Reinventing Ragtime * Love and Death Recognition (19141924) * Broadway Bound * The Great American Composer? * Sergeant Berlin * From the Music Box to the Round Table Acclaim (19241945) * Mackays Millions * Ellin * Heartbreak House * Recovery * Hollywood Refuge * Minstrel of Peace * Minstrel of Was Retreat (19461989) * One-Upmanship * Tycoon * Irving Likes Us * The Cheering Stops * Coda Chronology * Songs by Irving Berlin * Scores for Stage Productions and Motion Pictures |
Responsibility: | by Laurence Bergreen. |
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Abstract:
"Irving Berlin (1888--1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful"
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