When Broadway went to Hollywood

By the late 1920s, Broadway was thriving, and New York had produced dozens of prodigious songwriting talents: Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, and Jerry Herman, to name a few. When The Jazz Singer became the first film to integrate synchronized music in 1927, many...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mordden, Ethan
Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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