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Big Mama Thornton

Michael Spörke
Big Mama Thornton Book PDF

Author : Michael Spörke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476614229

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You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14. Then the book follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues, Houston, where Big Mama Thornton met Johnny Otis, with whom she recorded her greatest success--"Hound Dog." With the slowdown of the blues in the early sixties this book follows Big Mama Thornton's way to California, discusses her struggle to survive and celebrates her impressive musical comeback in the course of the blues revival and the hippie movement. With the end of the sixties, facing a declining interest in the old school blues, the book shows how Big Mama Thornton found her niche in clubs and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. The book then follows Big Mama Thornton through the seventies and eighties until her untimely death.

Black Diamond Queens

Maureen Mahon
Black Diamond Queens Book PDF

Author : Maureen Mahon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012771

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Black Diamond Queens by Maureen Mahon Pdf

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.

Janis

Holly George-Warren
Janis Book PDF

Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476793122

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Janis by Holly George-Warren Pdf

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.

Fictional Blues

Kimberly Mack
Fictional Blues Book PDF

Author : Kimberly Mack
Publisher : African American Intellectual
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 162534550X

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Fictional Blues by Kimberly Mack Pdf

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked by legendary blues "bad men" like Stagger Lee undergird the persistent racial myths surrounding "authentic" blues expression. Fictional Blues unpacks the figure of the American blues performer, moving from early singers such as Ma Rainey and Big Mama Thornton to contemporary musicians such as Amy Winehouse, Rhiannon Giddens, and Jack White to reveal that blues makers have long used their songs, performances, interviews, and writings to invent personas that resist racial, social, economic, and gendered oppression. Using examples of fictional and real-life blues artists culled from popular music and literary works from writers such as Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, and Sherman Alexie, Kimberly Mack demonstrates that the stories blues musicians construct about their lives (however factually slippery) are inextricably linked to the "primary story" of the narrative blues tradition, in which autobiography fuels musicians' reclamation of power and agency.

Black Music Is

Marcus Amaker
Black Music Is Book PDF

Author : Marcus Amaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734673788

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"Black music is the banjo, a history untold by radio. Sold from West Africa to the minstrel show ..."Black Music Is is a poetic love letter to Black music and history. The book weaves poetry and pop-surrealist illustration, teaching readers about icons like Big Mama Thornton, BB King, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Max Roach and Alice Coltrane. It also mentions modern-day musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Rhapsody, Big Joanie, Black Thought, and more. In the book, a cat plays records by Black musicians in five genres: blues, hip-hop, rock, bluegrass, and jazz. Black Music Is is perfect for readers looking to learn more about music, and sharpen their knowledge of Black history.The picture book was written by Marcus Amaker (Charleston, SC's first Poet Laureate) and illustrated by celebrated artist Nathan Durfee.

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

Elijah Wald
How The Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll Book PDF

Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199756971

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How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll by Elijah Wald Pdf

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.

Roadrunner

Joshua Clover
Roadrunner Book PDF

Author : Joshua Clover
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478021698

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Roadrunner by Joshua Clover Pdf

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner” captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its elaborate history, tracing its place in popular music from Chuck Berry to M.I.A. He also locates “Roadrunner” at the intersection of car culture, industrialization, consumption, mobility, and politics. Like the song itself, Clover tells a story about a particular time and place—the American era that rock & roll signifies—that becomes a story about love and the modern world.

Cover Me

Ray Padgett
Cover Me Book PDF

Author : Ray Padgett
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cover versions
ISBN : 1454922508

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Cover Me by Ray Padgett Pdf

Jimi Hendrix doing "All Along the Watchtower." The Beatles singing "Twist and Shout." Aretha Franklin demanding "Respect." Ray Padgett, the founder of the popular website covermesongs.com, explores these and other iconic covers in the first book ever on this topic. As he investigates each of 19 songs, Padgett also tells the larger story of how covers have evolved over the decades. Cover Me is packed with insight, photography, and music history.

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1

ANDREW. HICKEY
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1 Book PDF

Author : ANDREW. HICKEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0244548528

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1 by ANDREW. HICKEY Pdf

In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making. Volume one looks at fifty songs from the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1938 with Charlie Christian's first recording session, and ending in 1956. Along the way, it looks at Louis Jordan, LaVern Baker, the Ink Spots, Fats Domino, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackie Brenston, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.

Prophets of the Hood

Imani Perry
Prophets of the Hood Book PDF

Author : Imani Perry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822386155

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Prophets of the Hood by Imani Perry Pdf

At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a transnational musical form, Perry advances a powerful argument that hip hop is first and foremost black American music. At the same time, she contends that many studies have shortchanged the aesthetic value of rap by attributing its form and content primarily to socioeconomic factors. Her innovative analysis revels in the artistry of hip hop, revealing it as an art of innovation, not deprivation. Perry offers detailed readings of the lyrics of many hip hop artists, including Ice Cube, Public Enemy, De La Soul, krs-One, OutKast, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Tupac Shakur, Lil’ Kim, Biggie Smalls, Nas, Method Man, and Lauryn Hill. She focuses on the cultural foundations of the music and on the form and narrative features of the songs—the call and response, the reliance on the break, the use of metaphor, and the recurring figures of the trickster and the outlaw. Perry also provides complex considerations of hip hop’s association with crime, violence, and misogyny. She shows that while its message may be disconcerting, rap often expresses brilliant insights about existence in a society mired in difficult racial and gender politics. Hip hop, she suggests, airs a much wider, more troubling range of black experience than was projected during the civil rights era. It provides a unique public space where the sacred and the profane impulses within African American culture unite.

Upside Your Head!

Johnny Otis
Upside Your Head Book PDF

Author : Johnny Otis
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0819562874

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An intriguing memoir by the legendary bandleader.

A Blues Bibliography

Robert Ford
A Blues Bibliography Book PDF

Author : Robert Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135865085

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A Blues Bibliography by Robert Ford Pdf

This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.

When I Left Home

Buddy Guy
When I Left Home Book PDF

Author : Buddy Guy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306821073

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When I Left Home by Buddy Guy Pdf

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He and Junior Wells formed a band of their own. In the sixties, he became a recording star in his own right. When I Left Home tells Guy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, that of a storyteller who remembers everything, including blues masters in their prime and the exploding, evolving culture of music that happened all around him.

Nothing but the Blues

Lawrence Cohn
Nothing but the Blues Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Cohn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780789206077

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Nothing but the Blues by Lawrence Cohn Pdf

It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of holiness and sin, the pleasures and the pains of the flesh, the experience of tragedy, comedy, drunkenness, despair, desolation, and pure joy. It is the blues. At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more immediately appealing than the blues, yet so rewards a thorough knowledge of its finer points. In eleven authoritative essays commissioned especially for the book, Nothing But the Blues traces the African-American origins of the music, its early development as popular entertainment, its early recorded manifestations, its regional differentiation (Mid-South, Tidewater-Piedmont, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles), its many stylistic dimensions, and its contemporary manifestations. Country blues, urban blues, the evolution of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the blues revival are all fully covered. But the written history is only part of the story. Blues fans have always treasured rare photographs of their heroes, and Nothing But the Blues is gloriously illustrated with posed and candid shots of the musicians as well as photographs of such one-of-a-kind artifacts and documents as Leadbelly's NYPD rap sheet and classic recording contracts. Nothing But the Blues features an introduction by one of the genre's living legends, B. B. King, and a comprehensive "best of the best" discography, including current and rereleased recordings as well as the collectors' treasures to go after. Blues is more popular than ever before. Not only are reissues of historical blues classics selling in unprecedented numbers, but a whole new crop of vital young blues artists is active in clubs and on record today. Nothing But the Blues is a lavishly illustrated comprehensive history of the music and the musicians, as well as the promoters, producers, and others who have shaped--and continue to shape--this powerful and enduringly popular American musical art form.

The Big Book of Blues

Robert Santelli
The Big Book of Blues Book PDF

Author : Robert Santelli
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031159885

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The Big Book of Blues by Robert Santelli Pdf

This ultimate reference book for blues lovers is a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia with 600 entries profiling every known important blues artist from Bessie Smith, Charlie Patton, and Blind Willie McTell to Alberta Hunter, Robert Cray, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Discography. 40 photos.