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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Pages from The Talking Machine World
Author: TALKING MACHINE WORLD,
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHORPublisher:
ISBN: 9780428367282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Talking Machine World Trade Directory
Author: TALKING MACHINE WORLD,
Author: EDWARD LYMAN. BILLPublisher:
ISBN: 9781528205658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Segregating Sound
Author: Karl Hagstrom MillerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392704
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogs of “race” and “hillbilly” records produced by the phonograph industry. Such links among race, region, and music were new. Black and white artists alike had played not only blues, ballads, ragtime, and string band music, but also nationally popular sentimental ballads, minstrel songs, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and Broadway hits. In a cultural history filled with musicians, listeners, scholars, and business people, Miller describes how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a “musical color line,” a cultural parallel to the physical color line that came to define the Jim Crow South. Segregated sound emerged slowly through the interactions of southern and northern musicians, record companies that sought to penetrate new markets across the South and the globe, and academic folklorists who attempted to tap southern music for evidence about the history of human civilization. Contending that people’s musical worlds were defined less by who they were than by the music that they heard, Miller challenges assumptions about the relation of race, music, and the market.
TALKING MACHINE WORLD,
Author: EDWARD LYMAN. BILLPublisher:
ISBN: 9781528504744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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TALKING MACHINE WORLD,
Author: EDWARD LYMAN. BILLPublisher:
ISBN: 9781528104760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Radio-music Merchant Formerly Talking Machine World
Author: מבשר טוב ־ תורת בין הזמנים
Author: בצלאל שמחה מנחם בן ציון רבינוביץPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talmud Torah (Judaism)
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Talking Machine West
Author: Michael A. AmundsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.