American Standards

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American Standards is an alternative name for the Great American Songbook, the canon of influential early 20th-century American popular songs and jazz standards.

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American Standards canonical 1
American standards 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural concept
musical repertoire
song canon
alternateName Great American Songbook
countryOfOrigin United States
genre jazz
popular music
hasPart Broadway show tunes
Hollywood film songs
Tin Pan Alley songs
linked to: Tin Pan Alley

jazz standards
influenced easy listening music
traditional pop
vocal jazz repertoire
influencedBy American musical theatre
Tin Pan Alley tradition
early jazz
notableComposer Cole Porter
Duke Ellington
Fats Waller
George Gershwin
Harold Arlen
Hoagy Carmichael
Ira Gershwin
Irving Berlin
Jerome Kern
Johnny Mercer
Lorenz Hart
Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
notableSong All the Things You Are
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm
My Funny Valentine
Night and Day
Over the Rainbow
Someone to Watch Over Me
Stardust
Summertime
The Way You Look Tonight
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
typicalLanguage English
typicalPeriod 1920s
1930s
1940s
early 20th century
usedBy big bands
cabaret singers
jazz musicians
traditional pop vocalists

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Great American Songbook alsoKnownAs American Standards
Young Love for Sale (album) associatedWith American standards
linked to: American Standards