The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music

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This reference categorizes some 35 000 popular songs spanning 100 years of music into 1 800 themes such as advice men women love countries animals love God and the police. All genres of music are covered including popular standards contemporary hits oldies rock country R&B rap hip hop jazz reggae new age and even television themes childrens songs and advertising jingles. Each entry includes a brief discography. The book can be useful for radio and TV stations ad agencies film music supervisors musicians music librarians researchers and record collectors. This edition offers an improved index of subject keywords concepts and synonyms. Green is executive editor for the trade publication Radio & Records . Annotation c. Book News Inc. Portland OR (booknews.com)