Popular American Recording Pioneers

Author : Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Tim Gracyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136592294

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Popular American Recording Pioneers by Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Tim Gracyk Pdf

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought “popular” music into America's living rooms! Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into American homes the hits of the day--Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, parlor ballads, early jazz, and dance music of all kinds. Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 compiles rare information that was scattered in hundreds of record catalogs, hobbyist magazines, newspaper clippings, phonograph trade journals, and other sources. Look no further! This volume is the ultimate resource on the subject! You will increase your knowledge in these areas: the recording industry's formative years artists’personalities and musical styles popular music history history of recording technology Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 provides a unique “who's who” approach to popular music history. It is the definitive work on the music that was popular during America's coming of age. No music historian should be without this volume.

Author : Tim Gracyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184813384

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Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895-1925 by Tim Gracyk Pdf

Author : Tim Gracyk,Frank W. Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028692494

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The Encyclopedia of Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925 by Tim Gracyk,Frank W. Hoffmann Pdf

Author : Brian Ward,Patrick Huber
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826504043

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A&R Pioneers by Brian Ward,Patrick Huber Pdf

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019 A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as "record producer." Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.

Author : John W. Troutman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469627939

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Kika Kila by John W. Troutman Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent shows in the Mississippi Delta, where they shaped the new sounds of country and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville stages in New York, Berlin, Kolkata, and beyond. In the process, Hawaiian guitarists recast the role of the guitar in modern life. But as Troutman explains, by the 1970s the instrument's embrace and adoption overseas also worked to challenge its cultural legitimacy in the eyes of a new generation of Hawaiian musicians. As a consequence, the indigenous instrument nearly disappeared in its homeland. Using rich musical and historical sources, including interviews with musicians and their descendants, Troutman provides the complete story of how this Native Hawaiian instrument transformed not only American music but the sounds of modern music throughout the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Music
ISBN : OSU:32435067289553

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Pages from The Talking Machine World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057465281

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The Bulletin of the Society for American Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Rayno
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810883222

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Paul Whiteman by Don Rayno Pdf

In a career that spanned 60 years, Paul Whiteman changed the landscape of American music, beginning with his million-selling recordings in the early 1920s of “Whispering,” “Japanese Sandman,” and “Three O’Clock in the Morning.” Whiteman would then introduce “symphonic jazz,” a powerful blend of the classical and jazz idioms that represented a whole new approach to modern American music, influencing generations of bandleaders and composers. While some hold that at the close of the Roaring Twenties Whiteman’s musical hegemony quickly waned, Don Rayno illustrates in this second volume of Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music how much of a dominant figure Whiteman remained. A major figure on the American music scene for decades to come, he would continue to lead critically-acclaimed orchestras, filling theaters and concert halls alike and diligently seeking out and nurturing musical talent on the largest scale of any orchestra leader in the 20th century. In this second volume of Rayno’s magisterial treatment of the life and music of this remarkable maestro, Whiteman’s career during the second half of his life is explored in the fullest detail, as Whiteman conquers the worlds of theater and vaudeville, the concert hall, radio, motion pictures, and television, winning accolades in all of them. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive documentation, and exhaustive research of over nearly three decades, a portrait emerges of one of American music’s most important musical figures during the last century. Rayno paints a stunning portrait of Whiteman’s considerable accomplishments and far-reaching influence.

Author : John Broven
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252094019

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Record Makers and Breakers by John Broven Pdf

This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines narrative history with extensive oral history material from numerous recording pioneers including Joe Bihari of Modern Records; Marshall Chess of Chess Records; Jerry Wexler, Ahmet Ertegun, and Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records; Sam Phillips of Sun Records; Art Rupe of Specialty Records; and many more.

Author : William Howland Kenney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195171772

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Recorded Music in American Life by William Howland Kenney Pdf

Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--The formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion.

Author : Don Rayno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882041

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Paul Whiteman by Don Rayno Pdf

v. 1. "When Paul Whiteman, the best-known dance band leader of the flapper age, brought his entourage to town it was a big deal. Mayors met him at the train station and presented him with the key to the city, parades and throngs of cheering crowds escorted him to City Hall, and special luncheons were held in his honor. Eventually dubbed the "King of Jazz," Whiteman grew into one of the biggest promoters of players, singers, and arrangers of all times. Many well-known musicians got their first big boost in his band including Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Johnny Mercer, Mildred Bailey, and Ferde Grofé. When it came to jazz, Whiteman was a trailblazer. He invented "symphonic jazz" and gave the first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, one of the most enduringly popular of all jazz-influenced musical works of the 20th century. He perfected the one-nighter concert tours, traveling across the country by train, from city to city, with his unique brand of music. He was also the first to employ a special arranger to craft tailor-made charts to fit the Whiteman Orchestra's instrumentation and sound. This is the first of a two-volume set that will serve as the definitive work on the life and music of this legendary jazz leader. Covering the early years from 1890 to 1930, the text will entertain and inform the reader about the exciting life of one of the major influencers of jazz music and also provide a nostalgic glimpse of what life was like during the Roaring Twenties. Features: ---Day-by-day chronology 1890-1930 ---Comprehensive discography of recordings 1920-1930 ---Gallery of Whiteman's band members-alphabetical listing from 1918 to 1930 (includes birth and death dates) ---Detailed reference notes with biographical sketches of famous people ---Extensive bibliography and index, including index of songs ---Nearly 60 rare, black and white photos."--Publisher's description.

Author : William Jay Youmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062369213

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Pioneers of Science in America by William Jay Youmans Pdf

Author : James Arthur Von Schilling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN : UCSC:32106016558410

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The Magic Window by James Arthur Von Schilling Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000122978756

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American Angels by Peter Gardella Pdf

Explores the rich history of angels in America from Spanish colonialism and Puritan culture to modern incarnations found on TV, in movies, in comic books, and on bumper stickers. Finds that Americans have constructed the "useful angel" as a servant of man rather than an agent of God.

Author : Joseph Lanza,Dennis Penna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056355160

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Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique by Joseph Lanza,Dennis Penna Pdf

In a narrative full of passion, as well as showbiz personalities like Pola Negri and Carole Lombard, Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique combines a remarkable collection of Columbo's letters, diary entries, scrapbook clippings, and other personal effects - all woven with an intimate biography that pleads the case for romantic balladeers."--BOOK JACKET.