Reminiscences of Willard W. Alexander : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Musical agent.

Scope and Contents

Education, early days at University of Pennsylvania leading dancebands; difference between commercial and artistic music, with examples of each; decline of band business; Glenn Miller; rock and roll; contemporary music in general; studio band leaders.

Subjects

• Alexander, Willard W.
• Commercial agents--Interviews.
• Dance music--United States.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Popular music--United States.
• Rock music--United States.

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