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Author : Tom Perchard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351566223

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From Soul to Hip Hop by Tom Perchard Pdf

The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century. Soul, funk, pop, R&B and hip hop practices are explored both singly and in their many convergences, and in writings that have often become regarded as landmarks in black musical scholarship. These works employ a wide range of methodologies, and taken together they show the themes and concerns of academic black musical study developing over three decades. While much of the writing here is focused on music and musicians in the United States, the book also documents important and emergent trends in the study of these styles as they have spread across the world. The volume maintains the original publication format and pagination of each essay, making for easy and accurate cross-reference and citation. Tom Perchard?s introduction gives a detailed overview of the book?s contents, and of the field as a whole, situating the present essays in a longer and wider tradition of African American music studies. In bringing together and contextualising works that are always valuable but sometimes difficult to access, the volume forms an excellent introductory resource for university music students and researchers.

Author : Maury Dean
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 9780875862279

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Rock N Roll Gold Rush by Maury Dean Pdf

An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable."

Author : Nadine Cohodas
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807882740

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Princess Noire by Nadine Cohodas Pdf

Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York City's venerable Town Hall and was on her way. Tapping into newly unearthed material on Simone's family and career, Nadine Cohodas paints a luminous portrait of the singer, highlighting her tumultuous life, her innovative compositions, and the prodigious talent that matched her ambition. With precision and empathy, Cohodas weaves the story of Simone's contentious relationship with audiences and critics, her outspoken support for civil rights, her two marriages and her daughter, and, later, the sense of alienation that drove her to live abroad from 1993 until her death. Alongside these threads runs a more troubling one: Simone's increasing outbursts of rage and pain that signaled mental illness and a lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice.

Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199712137

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

"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television --to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of music that captivated listeners over the course of the twentieth century. Wald revisits original sources--recordings, period articles, memoirs, and interviews--to highlight how music was actually heard and experienced over the years. And in a refreshing departure from more typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks for example at the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk of its early audience. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent the mainstream of their times. Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears.

Author : Edwin García, Esq.
Publisher : Edwin García, Esq.
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Willie Torres Discography by Edwin García, Esq. Pdf

Available as a FREE .PDF at the Internetarchive.org: https://archive.org/details/WillieTorresDiscography One of the unsung trailblazers within the Latin music industry, Willie Torres (b. 1929) was the original lead singer for the 1950-60s Joe Cuba Sextet. He is credited as one of the 1st mainstream Latino singers to record English words to a Mambo rhythm - Nick Jiménez' 1955 historic song and arrangement of Mambo Of The Times. His career stretched as far back as the late 1940s through to the 2010s. He recorded with most of the biggest names in the Latin music field including: Machito, Graciela, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Ray Barretto, Charlie and Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Alegre All Stars, Louie Ramirez, Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria and many others. This .PDF book is a pictorial review of the albums he appeared on as a lead or background singer. Over 44 Latin music industry personnel contributed with their observations. Within its 186 pages, this reference work contains previously omitted data on recording session personnel, an array of anecdotes and album facts. As a result, the reader will get a quick overview of the Mambo, Pachanga and Boogaloo eras. This easy read contains over 200 photos of album covers, record session scenes and candid personal moments - some of which have never appeared in print before. Because of the high number of photos and the complex formatting, the .PDF format is the only viable option. Available as a FREE .PDF at the Internetarchive.org: https://archive.org/details/WillieTorresDiscography

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571261215

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Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Pdf

Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley - Marcus illuminates and interprets the American Dream in rigorous prose touching on the myth, landscape and oral tradition of the continent. This comprehensive, revised edition of a milestone achievement in the effort to establish rock and roll as a fit subject for serious cultural criticism, includes a new preface by the author.

Author : James T. Campbell,Matthew Pratt Guterl,Robert G. Lee
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807872758

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Race, Nation, and Empire in American History by James T. Campbell,Matthew Pratt Guterl,Robert G. Lee Pdf

While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansion, Indian removal, African slavery, Asian immigration, and global economic dominance, and they persist today despite the proliferation of anti-imperialist rhetoric. In fifteen essays, distinguished historians examine the central role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy from the founding of the United States to the twenty-first century. The essays trace the global expansion of American merchant capital, the rise of an evangelical Christian mission movement, the dispossession and historical erasure of indigenous peoples, the birth of new identities, and the continuous struggles over the place of darker-skinned peoples in a settler society that still fundamentally imagines itself as white. Full of transnational connections and cross-pollinations, of people appearing in unexpected places, the essays are also stories of people being put, quite literally, in their place by the bitter struggles over the boundaries of race and nation. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that the seemingly contradictory processes of boundary crossing and boundary making are and always have been intertwined. Contributors: James T. Campbell, Brown University Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan Matt Garcia, Brown University Matthew Pratt Guterl, Indiana University George Hutchinson, Indiana University Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University Prema Kurien, Syracuse University Robert G. Lee, Brown University Eric Love, University of Colorado, Boulder Melani McAlister, George Washington University Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky Louise M. Newman, University of Florida Vernon J. Williams Jr., Indiana University Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Author : Ruth Feldstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195314038

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Do What You Gotta Do by Ruth Feldstein Pdf

Do What You Gotta Do examines the role of black female entertainers in the Civil Rights movement.

Author : Algernon Austin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814707074

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Achieving Blackness by Algernon Austin Pdf

Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the “Afrocentric era” of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of “Blackness” within different time periods of the twentieth-century. Achieving Blackness provides both a fascinating history of Blackness and a theoretically challenging understanding of race and ethnicity. Austin traces how Blackness was defined by cultural ideas, social practices and shared identities as well as shaped in response to the social and historical conditions at different moments in American history. Analyzing black public opinion on black nationalism and its relationship with class, Austin challenges the commonly held assumption that black nationalism is a lower class phenomenon. In a refreshing and final move, he makes a compelling argument for rethinking contemporary theories of race away from the current fascination with physical difference, which he contends sweeps race back to its misconceived biological underpinnings. Achieving Blackness is a wonderful contribution to the sociology of race and African American Studies.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) Number-one Singles by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Phillip Brian Harper
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479865437

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Abstractionist Aesthetics by Phillip Brian Harper Pdf

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

Author : John A. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190287658

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A House on Fire by John A. Jackson Pdf

"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson takes us inside the musical empire created by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, the three men who put Philadelphia Soul on the map. Here is the eye-opening story of three of the most influential and successful music producers of the seventies. Jackson shows how Gamble, Huff, and Bell developed a black recording empire second only to Berry Gordy's Motown, pumping out a string of chart-toppers from Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the Spinners, the O'Jays, the Stylistics, and many others. The author underscores the endemic racism of the music business at that time, revealing how the three men were blocked from the major record companies and outlets in Philadelphia because they were black, forcing them to create their own label, sign their own artists, and create their own sound. The sound they created--a sophisticated and glossy form of rhythm and blues, characterized by crisp, melodious harmonies backed by lush, string-laden orchestration and a hard-driving rhythm section--was a glorious success, producing at least twenty-eight gold or platinum albums and thirty-one gold or platinum singles. But after their meteoric rise and years of unstoppable success, their production company finally failed, brought down by payola, competition, a tough economy, and changing popular tastes. Funky, groovy, soulful--Philly Soul was the classic seventies sound. A House on Fire tells the inside story of this remarkable musical phenomenon.

Author : Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315472089

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Issues in African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim Pdf

Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music industry, women and gender, and music as resistance, and explore the stories of music creators and their communities. Revised and expanded to reflect the latest scholarship, with six all-new essays, this book both complements the previously published volume African American Music: An Introduction and stands on its own. Each chapter features a discography of recommended listening for further study. From the antebellum period to the present, and from classical music to hip hop, this wide-ranging volume provides a nuanced introduction for students and anyone seeking to understand the history, social context, and cultural impact of African American music.

Author : Andrew R. Martin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496812438

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Steelpan Ambassadors by Andrew R. Martin Pdf

"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold War felt palpable. As President Eisenhower cast his gaze towards Russia, the American people cast their ears to the Atlantic South, infatuated with the international currents of Caribbean music. Today, steelbands have become a global phenomenon; yet, in 1957 the exotic sound and the unique image of the US Navy Steel Band was one-of-a-kind. Could calypso doom rock "n" roll? Band founder Admiral Daniel V. Gallery thought so and envisioned his steelband knocking "rock "n" roll and Elvis Presley into the ash can." From 1957 until their disbandment in 1999, the US Navy Steel Band performed over 20,000 concerts worldwide. In 1973, the band officially moved headquarters from Puerto Rico to New Orleans and found the city and annual Mardi Gras tradition an apt musical and cultural fit. The band brought a significant piece of Caribbean artistic capital--calypso and steelband music--to the American mainstream. Its impact on the growth and development of steelpan music in America is enormous. Steelpan Ambassadors uncovers the lost history of the US Navy Steel Band and provides an in-depth study of its role in the development of the US military's public relations, its promotion of goodwill, its recruitment efforts after the Korean and Vietnam Wars, its musical and technological innovations, and its percussive propulsion of the American fascination with Latin and Caribbean music over the past century.

Author : T. Brown,A. Lison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137375230

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The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision by T. Brown,A. Lison Pdf

Despite the explosion of interest in the "global 1968," the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars in history, cultural studies, musicology and other areas to explore the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual in the counterculture of the 1960s.