Art and reflects time, and forms him. A song is the most democratic, simplest and most popular form of art. She is created quite often almost spontaneously, instantly reacting on one or another event.In this book the cultural, historical and political portrait of century is shown through history of popular song, each of that is devote a separate head.Main - not necessarily the best, although these concepts coincide quite often. Some songs reflect the major political events of century - wars, revolutions, tipping points of history. Other anticipate them. Some frequently besides, and even in a counterbalance to intentions of their authors, suddenly extraordinarily exactly reflect the moods of the enormous masses of people and grow into the hymn of generation. Some open to popular music, and through her to mass consciousness before the forbidden, and even unknown layers human life.Songs are located in a chronological order, and all decades of the XX century and all genres of popular music are reflected in a book - from a blues and спиричуэла to the musical and jazz, from a fate to диско, from a ballad to хип-хопа.Created in a book "Song portrait of century" will allow to the reader to see at times unobvious connection between popular music and social and social and political processes in society of different countries during XX centuries.The publishing layout of book is stored in the format of PDF A4.