Lost Chords (1942)

by Douglas Gilbert

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Read 'em and weep; the songs you forgot to remember by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (waltzmn)
waltzmn: Douglas Gilbert's Lost Chords is a history of popular music in what we might call the pre-electric era. There is no greater historian of this period than Sigmund Spaeth, and Read 'em and Weep is his most considered sample of these songs.
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A history of popular music in America by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (waltzmn)
waltzmn: Douglas Gilbert's Lost Chords is a history of popular music in what we might call the pre-electric era. There is no greater historian of this period than Sigmund Spaeth, and A History of Popular Music in America his broadest overview.

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Foreword -- THis is a book about songs, specifically an examination and analysis of the American "pop" tune as a social expression in the lives of our people since the Civil War.

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