{"id":1007,"date":"2007-07-24T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2007-07-24T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T08:02:00","slug":"book_theyre_playing_our_song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/07\/book_theyre_playing_our_song\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: They&#8217;re Playing Our Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Wilk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTheyre-Playing-Our-Song-Conversations%2Fdp%2F0306807467%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1185260632%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>They&#8217;re Playing Our Song<\/em><\/a> (Da Capo). Wilk&#8217;s survey of classic songwriters doesn&#8217;t have the wisdom and analysis of Alec Wilder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAlec-Wilder-American-Popular-Song%2Fdp%2F0634024019%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1185260832%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>American Popular Song<\/em><\/a>. Still it&#8217;s a minor classic full of wonderful anecdotes about two dozen of the people who brought you the great American songbook, among them Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Fields, Mercer, Duke, Rogers and Styne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Wilk, They&#8217;re Playing Our Song (Da Capo). Wilk&#8217;s survey of classic songwriters doesn&#8217;t have the wisdom and analysis of Alec Wilder&#8217;s American Popular Song. Still it&#8217;s a minor classic full of wonderful anecdotes about two dozen of the people who brought you the great American songbook, among them Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Fields, Mercer, Duke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}