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Author : Richard Havers,Richard B. Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3283011486
Author : Bill Dahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226396699
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this unique sound has been just as varied and dynamic. There is no better guide to this fascinating graphical world than Bill Dahl—a longtime music journalist and historian who has written liner notes for countless reissues of classic blues, soul, R&B, and rock albums. With his deep knowledge and incisive commentary—complementing more than three hundred and fifty lavishly reproduced images—the history of the blues comes musically and visually to life. What will astonish readers who thumb through these pages is the amazing range of ways that the blues have been represented—whether via album covers, posters, flyers, 78 rpm labels, advertising, or other promotional materials. We see the blues as it was first visually captured in the highly colorful sheet music covers of the early twentieth century. We see striking and hard-to-find label designs from labels big (Columbia) and small (Rhumboogie). We see William Alexander’s humorous artwork on postwar Miltone Records; the cherished ephemera of concert and movie posters; and Chess Records’ iconic early albums designed by Don Bronstein, which would set a new standard for modern album cover design. What these images collectively portray is the evolution of a distinctively American art form. And they do so in the richest way imaginable. The result is a sumptuous book, a visual treasury as alive in spirit as the music it so vibrantly captures.
Author : Robert J. Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815605048
This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.
Author : Horace Clarence Boyer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gospel music
ISBN : 0252068777
Presents the history of gospel music in the United States. This book traces the development of gospel from its earliest beginnings through the Golden Age (1945-55) and into the 1960s when gospel entered the concert hall. It introduces dozens of the genre's gifted contributors, from Thomas A Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson to the Soul Stirrers.
Author : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : 0020617402
Author : William P. Gottlieb
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0876543557
Presents a look back at the Golden age of jazz the late 1930s through the 1940s
Author : Roxanne Moreil,Cyril Pedrosa
Publisher : First Second
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250777034
A medieval saga with political intrigue reminiscent of Game of Thrones, The Golden Age is an epic graphic novel duology from Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa about utopia and revolution. In the kingdom of Lantrevers, suffering is a way of life—unless you’re a member of the ruling class. Princess Tilda plans to change all that. As the rightful heir of late King Ronan, Tilda wants to deliver her people from famine and strife. But on the eve of her coronation, her younger brother, backed by a cabal of power-hungry lords, usurps her throne and casts her into exile. Now Tilda is on the run. With the help of her last remaining allies, Tankred and Bertil, she travels in secret through the hinterland of her kingdom. Wherever she goes, the common folk whisper of a legendary bygone era when all men lived freely. There are those who want to return to this golden age—at any cost. In the midst of revolution, how can Tilda reclaim her throne?
Author : Richard Havers,Richard Evans
Publisher : Book Sales Inc
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0785826254
Chronicles the history of blues music from its emergence in the early 1900s through the twentieth century, and describes the musical accomplishments of Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and others. Includes an audio CD.
Author : Martha Mier
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 145741452X
Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 4 contains original solos for late intermediate-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music.
Author : Martha Mier
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457411334
Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 3 contains original solos for intermediate to late intermediate-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music.
Author : John Broven
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781455619528
A chronicle of the rise and development of a unique musical form. Inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame under its original title Walking to New Orleans, this fascinating history focuses on the music of major R&B artists and the crucial contributions of the New Orleans music industry. Newly revised for this edition, much of the material comes firsthand from those who helped create the genre, including Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Wardell Quezergue.
Author : Ling Zhang
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185840
A sweeping, tragic novel spanning five generations and two continents Gold Mountain Blues is a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guangdong Province, which are transformed by the promise of a better life in Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for Canada’s majestic West Coast. In 1879, 16-year-old Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada determined to make a life for himself and to support his family back home. He will blast rocks for the Pacific Railway, launder linens for his countrymen, and save every penny he makes to reunite his family because his heart remains in China. From the 1860s to the present day, Gold Mountain Blues relates the struggles and sacrifices of the labourers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway and who laid the groundwork for the evolution of the modern Chinese-Canadian identity. A novel about family, hope, and sacrifice, Gold Mountain Blues is a marvellous saga from a remarkable new Canadian voice.
Author : Phil Pastras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 052092973X
When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden. He had arrived in Los Angeles more than twenty years earlier, but he recounted his losses as vividly as though they had occurred just recently. The greatest loss was his separation from Anita Gonzales, by his own account "the only woman I ever loved," to whom he left almost all of his royalties in his will. In Dead Man Blues, Phil Pastras sets the record straight on the two periods (1917-1923 and 1940-1941) that Jelly Roll Morton spent on the West Coast. In addition to rechecking sources, correcting mistakes in scholarly accounts, and situating eyewitness narratives within the histories of New Orleans or Los Angeles, Pastras offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of Morton, one of the most important and influential early practitioners of jazz. Pastras's discovery of a previously unknown collection of memorabilia—including a 58-page scrapbook compiled by Morton himself—sheds new light on Morton's personal and artistic development, as well as on the crucial role played by Anita Gonzales. In a rich, fast-moving, and fascinating narrative, Pastras traces Morton's artistic development as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. Among many other topics, Pastras discusses the complexities of racial identity for Morton and his circle, his belief in voodoo, his relationships with women, his style of performance, and his roots in black musical traditions. Not only does Dead Man Blues restore to the historical record invaluable information about one of the great innovators of jazz, it also brings to life one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of musical transformation on the West Coast.
Author : Steve Cushing
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252033018
This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters. The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.
Author : Jeff Gold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 1584234881
The story behind rockmusics most famous record covers as told by some of music business' most profilic rockstars.