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Author : Whitney Balliett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578068355
A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker
Author : Darryl Glenn Nettles
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786414677
Marian Roberts, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson were among the most visible early African American concert singers, but they were not the only ones. Many others were involved in the arts as concert singers and, given the times in which they lived, achieved tremendous results in the face of great adversity and helped pave the way for the post-1950 African American vocal artist. Drawn from articles, reviews, programs, biographical sources, and interviews, this work is a survey of the unknown early African American concert singers. Much of the information from periodicals was taken from The New York Amsterdam News, The Chicago Defender, and The New York Age. The book covers the African Americans who came before Roberts, Hayes, and Robeson, and details the opportunities available in Europe for black concert singers.
Author : Jay Althouse
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781470624279
Most vocal teachers have already discovered Jay's extremely popular Folk Songs for Solo Singers collections. And now, Alfred is excited to offer another for vocal students and their teachers! American Folk Songs for Solo Singers includes an excellent variety of solo material for recitals, concerts, and contests, available in two voicings. Titles: *Bright Morning Stars *Down in the Valley to Pray *Honey Babe *How Can I Keep from Singing? *My Lord, What a Morning *Nine Hundred Miles *Old Joe Clark *Pretty Little Girl *Shenandoah *Simple Gifts *Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child *Sun Don't Set in the Mornin' *The Water Is Wide
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1826 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Geoffrey G. Forward,Elisabeth Howard
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739018760
Geoffrey G. Forward, acting coach and leading expert in American diction, clearly illustrates for the singer how to gain control by eliminating vocal tension and poor diction and replacing it with clear pronunciation. Put the finishing touches on your singing not only with the excellent diction you will gain by using this text, but also through the concepts of phrasing, identifying key words and singing with emotion, which are brought to life in this book. This 270-page book is an essential addition to the library of every singer, voice teacher and vocal coach.
Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393242027
An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school—where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury. Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre’s mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella’s transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre. From the singer’s first performance at the Apollo Theatre’s famous “Amateur Night” to the Savoy Ballroom, where Fitzgerald broke through with Chick Webb’s big band in the 1930s, Tick evokes the jazz world in riveting detail. She describes how Ella helped shape the bebop movement in the 1940s, as she joined Dizzy Gillespie and her then-husband, Ray Brown, in the world-touring Jazz at the Philharmonic, one of the first moments of high-culture acceptance for the disreputable art form. Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records. A masterful biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.
Author : Michael S. Sherry
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807831212
Sherry explores the prominent role gay men have played in defining the culture of mid-20th-century America, including such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson.
Author : Leslie Gourse
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110152027
Based on dozens of interviews, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse performers who inherited Stachmo's legacy and made it their own.
Author : Victoria Etnier Villamil
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Songs
ISBN : 9780810827745
New in Paperback 2004. Considers the lives and contributions of 144 significant composers in the field. Includes a general discography, bibliography, and indexes for both titles and poets. ...writing style is clear and enjoyable, the information she supplies about the songs pertinent and helpful...extremely useful to singers, voice teachers, coaches and musicologists in planning programs and in obtaining information about American art song repertoire.--Lori N. White, Taylor University
Author : Jay Warner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634099787
Offers a decade-by-decade history of American singing groups, from the Ames and Mills Brothers, to the Platters and the Beach Boys, to Destiny's Child, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and many others, covering more than 380 artists and furnishing information on each group's career, key members, influences, photos, and discographies. Original.
Author : John Blizzard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781105959189
Singing American English helps singers, teachers, and directors to negotiate the many difficulties involved in singing beautiful American English. Designed for use in diction for singers classes, this book is the fruit of more than a quarter-century of teaching by Dr. John T. Blizzard. Now in its second edition, Singing American English is useful also as both a reference and a workbook, full of drills designed for the student to master new information. Readers will learn how to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a guide to their understanding, singing, and hearing. Chapters include discussions of the International Phonetic Alphabet, vowels and consonants, diphthongs, triphthongs, glides, and several articles on the relationship of diction to many facets of the performance of songs and arias. Students learn about the concept of the Hellwag Triangle, which, the author states, may be the most important chapter in the entire textbook in terms of their own singing.
Author : Henry Pleasants
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822001712009
Author : Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Avon ; Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015007248431
Includes material on the New York School, Pop art, Feminist Art Movement, and Latina artists.
Author : Deborah Everett,Elayne L. Zorn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780313080616
Indigenous North Americans have continuously made important contributions to the field of art in the U.S. and Canada, yet have been severely under-recognized and under-represented. Native artists work in diverse media, some of which are considered art (sculpture, painting, photography), while others have been considered craft (works on cloth, basketry, ceramics).Some artists feel strongly about working from a position as a Native artist, while others prefer to produce art not connected to a particular cultural tradition.
Author : MaryAnn F Kohl,Kim Solga
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641601733
Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach. For Georgia O'Keeffe, children will explore the concept of distance and foreground in a desert painting. To understand Frederic Remington's sculptures, they will create a face cast. Leroy Nieman will inspire a sketch of athletes. And for James Whistler, children will explore portraiture. Projects stress the creative process and encourage kids to try unusual techniques such as block printing, soak-stain, and stone carving as they learn about architecture, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Great American Artists for Kids includes easy-to-follow icons to indicate the experience, preparation, and materials necessary for each project, as well as guides to the style, movement, or era of each artist. Resources include websites for further research or artworks, a glossary, and a list of artists by style.