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Soul of the Man
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland relates how Bland, along with longtime friend B. B. King, and other members of the loosely …
Beat
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Av Kip Lornell, Charles C. Stephenson Jr.
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
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The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a …
Free Jazz/Black Power
Av Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Häftad, 2016
398 kr
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For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and African American culture.1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz …
Whistle Stop
Kenny Dorham, Jazz, and the Journey of a Texas Family
Av Robert M. Pallitto, John A. Melendez
Häftad, 2026
331 kr
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Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924–1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and creativity in twentieth-century America. Dorham was born in Freestone County to a …
Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White
Recalling the Blues
Häftad, 2024
321 kr
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Booker "Bukka" White (1905–1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues, David W. Johnson …
Trumpet Around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Häftad, 2024
340 kr
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Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and …
Dylan in Cincinnati
Häftad, 2026
321 kr
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Dylan in Cincinnati takes a fresh approach to Bob Dylan’s performance art by asking what happens when we focus on a single city across six decades. When we think of Dylan in concert, we imagine Newport, New York, or London. But most of his shows were in places far from the spotlight—venues largely …
Country Bob
Dylan and Country Music
Av Don Cusic
Häftad, 2026
242 kr
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As one of the most iconic American singer-songwriters in history, Bob Dylan has been a major figure in music and one of the best-selling artists for over sixty years. Coming out of the Greenwich folk scene in the 1960s, Dylan’s music has evolved over the years and defies musical genres. While …
Creole Trombone
Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Häftad, 2019
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
291 kr
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Edward ""Kid"" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest band …
Eck Robertson at the Crossroads of American Fiddling
Häftad, 2025
351 kr
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The Texas Panhandle’s frontier days were fresh in memory when fiddler Eck Robertson (1887-1975) arrived. Cowboys still worked on ranches in the 1910s but barbed-wire fences abounded too. Robertson pursued a continually evolving strategy to profit from the feverish transformation of living history …
Out of the Blue
Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
Av Brian Bisesi
Häftad, 2024
351 kr
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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend Muddy Waters. This life-changing quirk of fate …
Whistle Stop
Kenny Dorham, Jazz, and the Journey of a Texas Family
Av Robert M. Pallitto, John A. Melendez
Inbunden, 2026
1187 kr
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Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924–1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and creativity in twentieth-century America. Dorham was born in Freestone County to a …
Making Music
The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County
Häftad, 2023
340 kr
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The banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County takes a close look at the instrument and banjo players in Haywood County, North Carolina. Author William C. Allsbrook Jr., MD, presents the …
Out of the Blue
Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
Av Brian Bisesi
Inbunden, 2024
1322 kr
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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend Muddy Waters. This life-changing quirk of fate …
Country Bob
Dylan and Country Music
Av Don Cusic
Inbunden, 2026
1393 kr
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As one of the most iconic American singer-songwriters in history, Bob Dylan has been a major figure in music and one of the best-selling artists for over sixty years. Coming out of the Greenwich folk scene in the 1960s, Dylan’s music has evolved over the years and defies musical genres. While …
Blues and Gospel Recordings
1890–1943
Inbunden, 2026
1746 kr
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Blues and Gospel Recordings: 1890–1943 is the fifth edition of a work that has been indispensable to listeners and scholars alike for over half a century. It is as comprehensive a listing as possible of the culturally and stylistically African American recordings made within its timeframe, with the …
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
Inbunden, 2011
475 kr
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When George Jones recorded ""He Stopped Loving Her Today"" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, and an …
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
The Making of a Masterpiece, Revised and Updated
Häftad, 2019
285 kr
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On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash (1932–2003) took the stage at Folsom Prison in California. The concert and the live album, At Folsom Prison, propelled him to worldwide superstardom. He reached new Audiences, ignited tremendous growth in the country music industry, and connected with fans in a way …
Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi
Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018
Häftad, 2021
461 kr
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In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi’s rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick has …
Dick Waterman
A Life in Blues
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
326 kr
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Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century. A close …
Greek Music in America
Inbunden, 2018
1294 kr
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Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage …
Mario Lanza
Singing to the Gods
Häftad, 2015
354 kr
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Blessed with one of the great tenor voices of all time, Mario Lanza (1921-1959) rose to spectacular heights in a film, recording, and concert career that spanned little more than a decade. Groomed at the outset for a career on the opera stage, Lanza instead flourished in Hollywood where his films, …
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
Av Harry Bolick, Stephen T. Austin
Inbunden, 2015
1294 kr
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While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection …
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
Av Harry Bolick, Stephen T. Austin
Häftad, 2015
519 kr
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While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection …
Country Boys and Redneck Women
New Essays in Gender and Country Music
Av Diane Pecknold, Kristine M. McCusker
Inbunden, 2016
1294 kr
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Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre's power and mystique.Contributions by Georgia Christgau, Alexander S. Dent, Leigh H. Edwards, Caroline Gnagy, Kate Heidemann, Nadine Hubbs, Jocelyn Neal, Åse Ottosson, Travis Stimeling, Matthew D. Sutton, and Chris WilsonCountry music …
Boom's Blues
Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
Av Wim Verbei
Inbunden, 2017
885 kr
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Boom’s Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G.Boom (1920–1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African …
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
Häftad, 2016
701 kr
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This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. Levy operated one of the first integrated clubs …
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Inbunden, 2016
768 kr
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Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its …
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Inbunden, 2017
1282 kr
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In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop influenced musicians in Africa from the end of World War II into …
