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David Kenney's "Everything Old is New Again" radio show

"It's this obsolescence thing in America, where cars are made to break down and songs written to last two weeks. But good songs last forever, and I've come to learn that there's a whole group out there in the audience who's studying that with me. There's a greatness in an audience when it gets perfectly still. It becomes a beautiful tribal contact, a delicate, poetic thing. A great song does that. It also works two ways: the performer makes the song work, and the song inspires the performer."

American Popular Song:
The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
- by Alec Wilder (composer & songwriter)


"The first serious and most valuable study of American popular music...Provocative, informative, opinionated, and never dull." - Down Beat

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