Download or read book The American Songbook written by Ann Ommen Van der Merwe and published by Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song's popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of standards was eventually usurped by rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as how it has continued to hold historic, nostalgic, and contemporary value for listeners.