Author: Arnold ShawPublisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780020617402
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Honkers and Shouters
Author: Arnold ShawPublisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780020617402
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
All Music Guide to the Blues
Author: Vladimir BogdanovPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
American Popular Music: The age of rock
Author: Timothy E. ScheurerPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724689
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included--the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era.
The Jazz Age
Author: Arnold ShawPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195060822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.
The Blues
Author: Michael V. UschanPublisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1420506587
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, blues music was developed by African Americans in the Deep South. With roots in spirituals, folk music, work songs, and native music, blues contains a medley of influences that create a distinctive culture and sound. Blues moved north with the Great Migration and influenced many popular forms of music such as bluegrass, rock and roll, and country. This compelling volume details the history of blues music and the careers of major performers. It examines the ways the genre reflects the lives and conditions of African Americans during each period of its development and considers the evolution and resurgence of blues in the present day.
Red River Blues
Author: Bruce BastinPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065217
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.
Selling the Race
Author: Adam GreenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Black Chicagoans were at the centre of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Green argues that this period engendered a unique cultural and commercial consciousness, fostering ideas of racial identity that remain influential.
Black Diamond Queens
Author: Maureen MahonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012773
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index
Author: Edward M. KomaraPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415927017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Encyclopedia of the Blues
Author: Edward M. KomaraPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415926998
Category : Blues
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.