A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999)

A Century of American Popular Music is an annotated index to over 2,000 of the most popular, best-remembered, historically important and otherwise influential and interesting popular music songs, from the landmark publication of Scott Joplin’s ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ to the latest rap hit. It provides a mass of often hard-to-come-by information in a single resource: song title, composer, lyricist, publisher, date of copyright and genre. The annotations include, where possible, a discussion of the history of the song, how it was written, who popularized it, notable recordings with their original issue numbers and cover versions. Also included are indices by composer, publisher and year of publication.