Author : Colin Escott
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 9780415937825
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Maxine Brown
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1557289344
Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s
Author : Malcolm Macfarlane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476600244
Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como was the first popular singer to cross over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como's career illuminates developments in the music and television business in the middle of the last century. This biography features 73 photographs, a complete discography, a listing of all television appearances, and a year by year chronology of Perry Como's life from 1912 to 2001.
Author : Marvin Schwartz
Publisher : Butler Center Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1935106724
Rock and roll pioneer and Newport native Sonny Burgess is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In this book full of personal interviews and remembrances, Burgess and his band tell of their original recordings for Sun Records in the 1950s; their shows with greats such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis; and their success in the contemporary rockabilly revival. This also is the history of a once prominent and spirited Delta community of extensive agricultural wealth. Newport was home to numerous music clubs that hosted national artists as well as illicit backroom gambling. Burgess is a product of this history, and his vivacious music is shaped by his hometown and the dramatic transformation of southern rural life it witnessed.
Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739174851
Essays on the 50-year career of American songwriter and composer, John Fogarty, which argue for hus musical and cultural significance.
Author : Richard Carlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135361045
This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide an understanding of the artist's importance or failings, and a feeling for his or her style. Select discographies are provided at the end of each entry, while a bibliography and indexes by instrument, musical style, genre, and song title round out the work. For a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary website.
Author : William MacEwen
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316315060
The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya" sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.
Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : MultiMedia Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN :
In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music that began to develop rapidly in the 1920s. The term country music began to be widely applied to the music in the 1940s and was fully embraced in the 1970s while country and western declined in use. "Encompassing a wide range of musical genres, from folk songs and religious hymns to rhythm and blues, country music reflects our Nation's cultural diversity as well as the aspirations and ideals that unite us. It springs from the heart of America and speaks eloquently of our history, our faith in God, our devotion to family, and our appreciation for the value of freedom and hard work. With its simple melodies and timeless, universal themes, country music appeals to listeners of all ages and from all walks of life." (President George H. W. Bush celebrated country music by declaring October, 1990 "Country Music Month")
Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 6042 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN :
A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 019975697X
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.
