Music from the American Century: Whitney Museum of American Art (US Import)

Name: Music from the American Century: Whitney Museum of American Art (US Import)
Brand: Museum Music, Inc.
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Music From the American Century, is a unique double compact disc that was produced in partner with the Whitney Museum of American Art. It includes music from American masters of the 20th Century (from Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong to James Brown and Marvin e). The American Century is a groundbreaking exhibition currently on view that explores the evolution of American identity over the past one hundred years, as seen through the eyes of the nation's artists and their influence on American culture. The release will coincide and celebrate the second cycle of the exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, which will run from September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000. This exhibition is an exciting experience and includes all mediums of artistic expression. Just as the exhibition focuses on great achievements in art, this CD mirrors the experience and focuses on Popular Music through the 20th century. more Enjoy this unique CD, that represents popular music and its development, as one of the most significant American art forms over the past one hundred years. Even though the image (graphic design, painting and illustration, photography, motion pictures, and television) was the centurys dominant mode of m communication for the past 100 years, the melodies and lyrics of American popular song, are as engraved in our collective memory as any image from the past century. Individual songs evoke private and shared memories and conjure up other times, places, and feelings, personal and social, real or imagined. The American Century is certainly a century of music. American popular music begins the twentieth century with the story-songs of Tin Pan Alley (Moonlight Bay), which linger through World War I. These songs give way to leaner, more sophisticated songs in the 1920s (The Man I Love, All By Myself) as the American middle and upper-middle cles experience for the first time world-cl prosperity and status.

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