Marshall and Jean Stearns ; [updated with a new foreword & afterword by Brenda Bufalino].
1st Da Capo Press ed.
New York :
Da Capo Press,
1994.
xviii, 472 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm.
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography (p. 403-427).
Introduction -- Prehistory -- Beginnings -- The vernacular -- Tin pan alley and song lyrics -- Broadway and the reviewers -- Technique: pioneers, innovators, and stylists -- Specialties -- Acrobatics -- The class acts -- The jitterbug -- Requiem.