Chinatown, My Chinatown

Cover, notene, 1910

«Chinatown, My Chinatown» er en amerikansk populærmusikksang, skrevet av Jean Schwartz (melodi) og William Jerome (tekst) i 1910.

Jerome og Schwartz innlemmet kinesiske musikalske former i vestlig musikk til melodien.[1] Sangen har blitt innspilt av tallrike artister, innbefattet Al Jolson[2] samt Chris Connor,[3] og blir betraktet som en jazz standard.[4]

Sangen var med i Woody Allens film Radio Days (1987) og i Illusion Softworks' videospill Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002)

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Referanser

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  1. ^ Moon, Yellowface, s. 100: «Often, these composers chose to use parallel fourths, fifth, octaves, and minor thirds, which had been mentioned in European and American discussions of Chinese music. The most famous example was William Jerome and Jean Schwartz's "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (1910) ...»
  2. ^ [http://www.billboard.com/#/song/al-jolson/chinatown-my-chinatown/4651843
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Crawford, Jazz Standards on Record, s. ix: Table 1. Jazz Standards in the Core Repertory
  5. ^ Carl Mann

Litteratur

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  • Crawford, Richard; Magee, Jeffery (1992): Jazz Standards on Record, 1900-1942: A Core Repertory. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research Columbia College
  • Jerome, William; Schwartz, Jean (1910): "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (noter). New York: Jerome H Remick & Co.
  • Moon, Krystyn R (2005): Yellowface: Creating The Chinese In American Popular Music And Performance, 1850s-1920s, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

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