Author: Colin LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Dutch Swing College Band-Heptones
Author: Colin LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The encyclopedia of popular music. 3. Dutch Swing College Band - Heptones
Author: Colin LarkinDutch Swing College Band - Heptones
Author: The Dutch Swing College Band
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Music
Author: New York Public Library. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Extended Play
Author: John CorbettPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314738
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae. Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world's most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
Author: Jason WilsonPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774862300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how reggae brought black and white youth together, opening up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians along the city’s ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture rebelled against the status quo, broke through the bonds of race, eased the acculturation process, and made bands such as Messenjah and the Sattalites household names for a brief but important time.
The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music
Author: Jonathan C. FriedmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136447288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the 19th century until today, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music aims to be a probing introduction to the history of social protest music, ideal for popular music studies and history and sociology of music courses.
Women and Music in America Since 1900 [2 Volumes]
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Author: Kristine H. BurnsPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This two-volume reference describes the role of women in all types of music in the U.S. since 1900. The alphabetically-arranged entries cover important individuals (chosen for the significance of their contributions rather than for their popularity), biographical overviews, gender issues, education, music genres, honors and awards, organizations and professions. Entries (ranging from half a page to several pages in length) conclude with a short list of further readings, and about 100 are accompanied by a b & w photograph. A historical overview and a chronology are also included. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
It's a London Thing
Author: Caspar MelvillePublisher: Music and Society
ISBN: 9781526131232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. It conceives of the linked scenes around black music in London, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep and grime of the 2000s, as demonstrating enough common features to be thought of as one musical culture, an Afro-diasporic continuum. Core to this idea is that this dance culture has been ignored in history and cultural theory and that it should be thought of as a powerful and internationally significant form of popular art.