Blues Singers

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786462414

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Blues Singers by David Dicaire Pdf

This reference volume is intended for both the casual and the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. Beginning with the pioneering Mississippi Delta bluesmen, the book then follows the spread of the genre to the city, in the section on the Chicago Blues School. The third segment covers the Texas blues tradition; the fourth, the great blueswomen; and the fifth, the genre’s development outside its main schools. The styles covered range from Virginia-Piedmont to Bentonia and from barrelhouse to boogie-woogie. The main text is augmented by substantial discographies and a lengthy bibliography.

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786462421

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The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland, 1999), included pioneers, innovators, superstars, and cult heroes of blues music born before 1940. This second work covers those born after 1940 who have continued the tradition. This work has five sections, each with its own introduction. The first, Modern Acoustic Blues, covers artists that are major players on the acoustic blues scene of recent time, such as John Hammond, Jr. The second, Contemporary Chicago Blues, features artists of amplified, citified, gritty blues (Paul Butterfield and Melvin Taylor, among others). Section three, Modern American Electric Blues, includes some Texas blues singers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan and examines how the blues have spread throughout the United States. Contemporary Blues Women are in section four. Section five, Blues Around the World, covers artists from four different continents and twelve different countries. Each entry provides biographical and critical information on the artist, and a complete discography. A bibliography and supplemental discographies are also provided.

Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053768688

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The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World by Julius Lester Pdf

Highlights the careers of Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Little Richard, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin.

Author : Douglas Mark Ponton,Uwe Zagratzki
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781622739561

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Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Self-Expression and Trans-Culturalism by Douglas Mark Ponton,Uwe Zagratzki Pdf

The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton’s and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki’s enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes of Samuel Charters and Paul Oliver, the authors hope to contribute to the revitalisation of the field through a multi-disciplinary approach designed to explore this constantly evolving social phenomenon in all its heterogeneity. Focusing either on particular artists (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson), or specific texts (Langston Hughes’ Weary Blues and Backlash Blues, Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun), the book tackles issues ranging from authenticity and musicology in Blues performance to the Blues in diaspora, while also applying techniques of linguistic analysis to the corpora of Blues texts. While some chapters focus on the Blues as a quintessentially American phenomenon, linked to a specific social context, others see it in its current evolutions, as the bearer of vital cultural attitudes into the digital age. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a broad range of scholars operating in a number of different academic disciplines, including Musicology, Linguistics, Sociology, History, Ethnomusicology, Literature, Economics and Cultural Studies. It will also interest educators across the Humanities, and could be used to exemplify the application to data of specific analytical methodologies, and as a general introduction to the field of Blues studies.

Author : Alison Goodman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101601273

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Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman Pdf

Alison Goodman's first novel - in a very special new edition! Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student: Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel gets sick. Joss quickly realizes that his will to live is draining away. The only way she can help Mavkel is by breaking the Centre's strictest rules - and that means going back in time to change history. This new Firebird edition of Alison Goodman's acclaimed first genre-bending adventure features a short story about Joss and Mav's after-book adventures, originally published in Firebirds Rising.

Author : Billie Holiday,William Dufty
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767923866

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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday,William Dufty Pdf

Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.

Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252068815

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Long Steel Rail by Norm Cohen Pdf

Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.

Author : Sheldon Harris
Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040431903

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Blues Who's who by Sheldon Harris Pdf

Includes a bibliography, as well as film, radio, television, theater, song, and "names and places" indexes.

Author : Derrick Stewart-Baxter
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Blues (Music)
ISBN : 0812813219

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Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers by Derrick Stewart-Baxter Pdf

Portrait of the musical careers of popular women, exponents of the classic period of blues vocal music. Discog

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Band music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117449111

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Metronome by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Guralnick
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316304375

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Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick Pdf

This highly acclaimed biography from the author of Last Train to Memphis illuminates the extraordinary life of one of the most influential blues singers of all time, the legendary guitarist and songwriter whose music inspired generations of musicians, from Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones and beyond. The myth of Robert Johnson’s short life has often overshadowed his music. When he died in 1938 at the age of just twenty-seven, poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he’d been flirting with at a dance, Johnson had recorded only twenty-nine songs. But those songs would endure as musical touchstones for generations of blues performers. With fresh insights and new information gleaned since its original publication, this brief biographical exploration brilliantly examines both the myth and the music. Much in the manner of his masterful biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick here gives readers an insightful, thought-provoking, and deeply felt picture, removing much of the obscurity that once surrounded Johnson without forfeiting any of the mystery. “I finished the book," declared the New York Times Book Review, "feeling that, if only for a brief moment, Robert Johnson had stepped out of the mists.”

Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210569229

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The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World by Julius Lester Pdf

The blues. It's that low-down feeling that makes you ache from your soul to the soles of your shoes. Here in the voice of a grandfather passing on a legacy to a younger generation, renowned author Julius Lester introduces ten of the hottest black blues singers of our time. The diva Aretha Franklin, the legendary Billie Holiday, and the fabulous B.B. King are just a taste of what's in store.

Author : Dick Weissman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816069750

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Blues by Dick Weissman Pdf

Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of blues music.

Author : Henry Pleasants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042589759

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The Great American Popular Singers by Henry Pleasants Pdf

Author : Eli Yamin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442267046

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So You Want to Sing the Blues by Eli Yamin Pdf

Eli Yamin explores those essential elements that make the blues sound authentic and guides readers of all backgrounds and levels through mastering this art form. He provides glimpses into the musical lives of the women and men who created the blues and offers concrete explanations and exercises to improve any singer’s technique and expression.