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Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture Essays on an American Icon
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Leonard Mustazza
Book Code: C6495
ISBN: 0-275-96495-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96495-5
328 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/1998
List Price: $86.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • A useful addition to popular music and culture collections at academic and public libraries.
    —Choice
  • This collection of 18 essays (including a 1945 plea for racial harmony by Sinatra himself), 13 of them new, is a mixed bag of superb musical and technical insight, interesting cultural studies analysis, and pure blather.
    —Kirkus Reviews
  • Endorsement From Ric Ross
    Sinatra Authority:     [This] is the one book that will appeal to everyone who has ever listened to Sinatra, seen him in films, TV or in person or has simply heard his name and wondered what he was all about....Tying it all together is the Introduction by Leonard Mustazza, which is absolutely brilliant. The 19 pages he uses to tell us about Sinatra, is the BEST summation you will ever read.
Description: Frank Sinatra's influence on American popular culture has been wide reaching and long lasting. This diverse collection of essays written by historians, music critics, and popular culture personalities offers a myriad of perspectives and commentaries on this multitalented legend. The essays attest to the interest in Sinatra that has spanned six decades and shows no sign of diminishing--even after his death. From singer to actor, from mass media personality to humanitarian and cultural trendsetter, the many contributions of Frank Sinatra are brought to life in this entertaining volume. Written to appeal to Sinatra fans, these unique essays, including one by Frank Sinatra himself, are organized into three sections. The first examines Sinatra's fame and the ways in which his image was formed, the second looks at his music, and the final group of essays are personal reminiscences by the people who knew him. Together these essays will provide new material for the ever-growing dialogue about Frank Sinatra's place in and influence over twentieth-century American popular culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction by Leonard Mustazza
  • Celebrity, American Culture, and Frank Sinatra
  • What's this about Races? by Frank Sinatra
  • Love in the Western World: Sinatra and the Conflict of Generations by T.H. Adamowski
  • The Swinger and the Loser: Sinatra, Masculinity, and Fifties Culture by Roger Gilbert
  • Bobby Sox and Blue Suede Shoes: Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley as Teen Idols by James F. Smith
  • The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn by Gilbert L. Gigliotti
  • Sinatra's Fans: Discussions in Three Tenses--The Past, the Present, and the Future by Ken Hutchins
  • Sinatra: Psychiatric Musings by Lloyd L. Spencer
  • The Troubadour as Modern Hero
  • Listening to Frank Sinatra by Gerald Early
  • At the Heart of American Music by Daniel Okrent
  • Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording by Charles L. Granata
  • Sinatra on Broadway by Philip Furia
  • Sinatra and Jazz by Will Friedwald
  • Sinatra and the Great American Style by Richard Iaconelli
  • Theology and Music in a Different Key: Meditations on Frank Sinatra and Eros in a Fallen World by Edmund N. Santurri
  • Personal Reminiscences
  • Eye Witness by Stan Cornyn
  • Sinatra and the Atlantic City Connection by Richard Apt
  • A Kid in Line Who Made It Backstage by Bill Boggs
  • Sounds of Sinatra: A Conversation with Sid Mark by Charles L. Granata
  • Appendix: Career Highlights
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-23933
LCC Class: ML420
Dewey Class: 782
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