Jerome Kern: His Life and Music (Oxford paperbacks)

by Gerald Bordman (Author), Gerald Bordman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.24

  Raised on the periphery of the American-Jewish elite, the composer Jerome Kern achieved early success and spent the remainder of his life among the rich and famous. However, Gerald Bordman shows in this comprehensive biography that Kern's celebrity was fully merited. Between 1914, when They Didn't Believe Me became a popular ballad, and his death in 1945, Kern produced innovative and enduring works of popular music. With the musical Show Boat he initiated an Americanized operetta style that dominated the American stage for decades.