Jazz Records, 1942-80: Ell-Fra
Author : Erik Raben
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author : Erik Raben
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 022606767X
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
Author : Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810869861
This annotated bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. Entries are organized by category, including biographies, history, individual instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, discographies, and reference works. Three indexes—by title, author, and subject—are included.
Author : Guido van Rijn
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Twenty-six of the songs discussed in the text are available on a CD produced by Agram Blues (ABCD 2018) to accompany this book. Digitally remastered and featuring full liner notes by the author, the CD is a unique historical document of the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies.
Author : Erik Raben
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author : Mark C. Gridley
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780132609852
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN :
This alphabetical reference covers the entire spectrum of the recording of sound, from Edison's experimental cylinders to contemporary high technology. The major focus is on the recorded sound industry in the US, with additional material on Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The coverage is particularly strong on the earliest periods of recorded sound history--1877-1948, the 78 rpm era and 1949-1982, the LP era. In addition to performers and their work, entries also cover important commercial organizations, individuals who made significant technical contributions, societies and associations, sound archives and libraries, magazines, catalogs, award winners, technical topics, special and foreign terms, copyright laws, and other areas of interest. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Theodor Adorno
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844670512
"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." Susan Sontag