Popular Music: An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs
- ISBN-10
- 0787613924
- ISBN-13
- 9780787613921
- Series
- Popular Music
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 171
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-06
- Author
- Nat Shapiro
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