Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture / Gary A. Rosen.
2020
KF3035 .R63 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture / Gary A. Rosen.
Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Description
398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: Nathan the wise
Immigrant passages
The Pittsburgh troubles
To Victor belong the spoils
Tin Pan Alley
Canned music
Mr. Burkan goes to Washington
The two-cent solution
Entr'acte
The lone star
Charlie in the harem
The price of a good time
The gospel of performing rights
Shanley's cabaret extraordinaire
The music tax
The ether toy
The silent screen
The jazz singer
Rum runners
The bindlestiff
New York's spotlight lawyer
Love's undertaker
Nightstick censorship
The big bankroll and the little flower
Modern times
New Deal days
Gloria
Blue bloods meet the hoi polloi
Twilight of the music trust
Exeunt.
Immigrant passages
The Pittsburgh troubles
To Victor belong the spoils
Tin Pan Alley
Canned music
Mr. Burkan goes to Washington
The two-cent solution
Entr'acte
The lone star
Charlie in the harem
The price of a good time
The gospel of performing rights
Shanley's cabaret extraordinaire
The music tax
The ether toy
The silent screen
The jazz singer
Rum runners
The bindlestiff
New York's spotlight lawyer
Love's undertaker
Nightstick censorship
The big bankroll and the little flower
Modern times
New Deal days
Gloria
Blue bloods meet the hoi polloi
Twilight of the music trust
Exeunt.
Summary
"Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is a lively narrative exploring the coming-of-age of institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. This story is revealed through the career of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose clients included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn. Burkan was one of the principal draftspeople of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, which was established to protect the rights of composers whose music was being played in cabarets and theaters without compensation. Burkan's groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today. Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and often uproarious courtroom confrontations, scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful political, economic, and cultural forces from which the United States emerged as the world's leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is not merely an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, but a history of entertainment and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century. Rosen takes us on a fascinating romp through an era of American culture that promises new discoveries for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age"--Provided by publisher.
Note
"Simpson imprint in the humanities."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-383) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Rosen, Gary A. Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Call Number
KF3035 .R63 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780520297371 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520297377 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520969759 (ebook)
0520297377 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520969759 (ebook)
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