A Bibliography of Song Sheets Sports and Recreations in American Popular Songs: Part II
1950; Music Library Association; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/889792
ISSN1534-150X
Autores Tópico(s)Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
ResumoThere will be some who remember that Part II of this Bibliography, published in September 1950, listed compositions devoted to three of the more popular competitive out-door sports-baseball, football, and outdoor swimming. While working on that installment, a certain number of songs and piano pieces celebrating other sports kept turning up, but their quantity did not seem alarming, and it was supposed that all the other competitive sports could easily be covered in this present installment. When we finally settled down to assembling the data, however, several rather unexpected factors began to manifest themselves. For one thing, the fear regarding a paucity of material in certain categories was more than borne out. Although swimming indoors in a pool is an extremely popular sport, not a single sheet could be found singing the praises of the champion breast stroke swimmer, the joys of swimming on one's back, or the speed developed with the Australian crawl. Only one sheet each was found devoted to hockey, fencing, La Crosse, and mountain climbing, and only three sheets to wrestling. In view of what TV has done for wrestling, this last failure of the song writers of the country would seem utterly inexplicable, if it were not thrown completely into the shade by the situation in regard to basketball. Basketball has long been one of the most popular of all the minor sports from grammar school days through college. And yet the reader will find by turning to the pertinent section the depths to which we have been forced in order to include the name of the game in this list at all. The ultimate insult to a noble form of exercise comes when Carl Wilhelm Kern uses
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