Bossmen: Bill Monroe & Muddy Waters. By James Rooney
Author : Bill Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Bill Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Jim Rooney
Publisher : Sams
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Every field has its "bossman"--the one who sets the style and makes the rules. In bluegrass and early country music the man was Bill Monroe. In the world of urban blues, the man was Muddy Waters. Using their own words and dozens of remarkable photographs by David Gahr, Carl Fleischhauer and John Byrne Cooke, the author compares and contrasts the careers of these two bossmen. Both grew up in remote rural areas. Muddy Waters heard field hollers, church music, jubilees, shouts, string band music, and the raw sound of the delta blues; for Bill Monroe it was square dance music, hymns, old country ballads and the fiddling of his Uncle Pen Vandiver. Both brought their music to the big cities: Bill to Nashville, Muddy to Chicago. Musicians who passed through their bands went on to form bands of their own, giving rise to the worlds of Bluegrass and Chicago Blues. But this is more than a book about music; it is a book about black and white America. In microcosm, it is almost a history of this country; and it sets up striking comparisons that cut deep into our heritage and ways. In the words of Pete Seeger: "Anyone in the world wanting to understand American music could well start right here."
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Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781794159914
Every field has its "bossman"--the one who sets the style and makes the rules. In bluegrass and early country music the man was Bill Monroe. In the world of urban blues, the man was Muddy Waters.Using their own words and dozens of remarkable photographs by David Gahr, Carl Fleischhauer and John Byrne Cooke, James Rooney compares and contrasts the careers of these two bossmen. Both grew up in remote rural areas. Muddy Waters heard field hollers, church music, jubilees, shouts, string band music, and the raw sound of the delta blues; for Bill Monroe it was square dance music, hymns, old country ballads and the fiddling of his Uncle Pen Vandiver. Both brought their music to the big cities: Bill to Nashville, Muddy to Chicago. Musicians who passed through their bands went on to form bands of their own, giving rise to the worlds of Bluegrass and Chicago Blues.But this is more than a book about music; it is a book about black and white America. In microcosm, it is almost a history of this country; and it sets up striking comparisons that cut deep into our heritage and ways. In the words of Pete Seeger, "Anyone in the world wanting to understand American music could well start right here."
Author : James Rooney
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Jim Rooney
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Popular music
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Author : James Rooney
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1991-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Every field has its 'boss man' the one who sets the style and makes the rules. In bluegrass and early country music, the man is Bill Monroe. In the world of urban blues, the man is Muddy Waters. Using their own words and dozens of remarkable photographs, James Rooney compares and contrasts the careers of these two bossmen.
Author : Neil V. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 025205623X
Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, The Music of Bill Monroe presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe’s commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe’s life and career at that point, bringing in producers, sidemen, and others as they become part of the story. The narratives read like a “who’s who” of bluegrass, connecting Monroe to the music’s larger history and containing many fascinating stories. The second part of each chapter presents the discography. Information here includes the session’s place, date, time, and producer; master/matrix numbers, song/tune titles, composer credits, personnel, instruments, and vocals; and catalog/release numbers and reissue data. The only complete bio-discography of this American musical icon, The Music of Bill Monroe is the starting point for any study of Monroe’s contributions as a composer, interpreter, and performer.
Author : Thomas Goldsmith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252029141
A chronological guide to bluegrass music that describes and traces the development of the musical genre.
Author : Tom Ewing
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252025006
Lively, heartfelt, and informative, 'The Bill Monroe Reader' is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation.
Author : Mark Spicer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351550683
This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range of approaches that scholars in various disciplines have applied to the study of rock, from those that address mainly the historical, sociological, cultural and technological factors that gave rise to this music, to those that focus primarily on analysis of the music itself. This collection of articles, some of which are now out of print or otherwise difficult to access, provides an overview of the current state of research in the field of rock music, and includes an introduction which contributes to the ongoing debate over the distinction (or lack thereof) between ?rock? and ?pop?.