American Standards

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American Standards is an alternative name for the Great American Songbook, the canon of influential early 20th-century American popular songs and jazz standards.

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Label Occurrences
American Standards canonical 1
American standards 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural concept ⓘ
musical repertoire ⓘ
song canon ⓘ
alternateName Great American Songbook ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
popular music ⓘ
hasPart Broadway show tunes ⓘ
Hollywood film songs ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley songs ⓘ
linked to: Tin Pan Alley

jazz standards ⓘ
influenced easy listening music ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ
vocal jazz repertoire ⓘ
influencedBy American musical theatre ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley tradition ⓘ
early jazz ⓘ
notableComposer Cole Porter ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Fats Waller ⓘ
George Gershwin ⓘ
Harold Arlen ⓘ
Hoagy Carmichael ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ
Irving Berlin ⓘ
Jerome Kern ⓘ
Johnny Mercer ⓘ
Lorenz Hart ⓘ
Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ
Richard Rodgers ⓘ
notableSong All the Things You Are ⓘ
Embraceable You ⓘ
I Got Rhythm ⓘ
My Funny Valentine ⓘ
Night and Day ⓘ
Over the Rainbow ⓘ
Someone to Watch Over Me ⓘ
Stardust ⓘ
Summertime ⓘ
The Way You Look Tonight ⓘ
They Can’t Take That Away from Me ⓘ
typicalLanguage English ⓘ
typicalPeriod 1920s ⓘ
1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ
usedBy big bands ⓘ
cabaret singers ⓘ
jazz musicians ⓘ
traditional pop vocalists ⓘ

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Great American Songbook → alsoKnownAs → American Standards ⓘ
Young Love for Sale (album) → associatedWith → American standards ⓘ
linked to: American Standards