Author : Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472089567
How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture
Author : Jim Haskins
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2000-12-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780786804788
Examines the origins and evolution of rap music, its African roots, and continuing popularity.
Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0812699440
In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further. "Written with the insights of an academic, the authority of a musicologist, and—best of all—the passion of a true fan. Martin charts topographic oceans, courts crimson kings, does some brain salad surgery, and generally rocks out in 7/8 time." —Jim DeRogatis Sun-Times music critic
Author : Aniko Bodroghkozy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822326458
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Author : Rickey Vincent
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1466884525
Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates the songs, the musicians, the philosophy, and the meaning of funk. The book spans from the early work of James Brown (the Godfather of Funk) through today, covering funky soul (Stevie Wonder, the Temptations), so-called "black rock" (Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers), jazz-funk (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock), monster funk (Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band), naked funk (Rick James, Gap Band), disco-funk (Chic, K.C. and the Sunshine Band), funky pop (Kook & the Gang, Chaka Khan), P-Funk Hip Hop (Digital Underground, De La Soul), funk-sampling rap (Ice Cube, Dr. Dre), funk rock (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus), and more. Funk tells a vital, vibrant history-the history of a uniquely American music born out of tradition and community, filled with energy, attitude, anger, hope, and an irrepressible spirit.
Author : Peter Benjaminson
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802142856
Motown was part of growing up in the 1960's and 70's. An amazing number of well-known stars worked for Motown: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jr Walker and the All Stars, Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Edwin Starr, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Lamont Dozier, Shorty Long, the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Fifth dimension, the Marvelettes, the Contours, the Isley Brothers, the Spinners, the Originals, the Jackson Five, the Commodores, Rare Earth, Rick James, and many others. Most were Motown stars. Many started and ended with Motown. Motown is important for other reasons. A black company, Motown made black music popular among Americans of all ages.
Author : Nicole Hodges Persley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472055119
Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists
Author : Andrew Flory
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472122878
I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues while developing the famous “Motown Sound.” Throughout the book, Flory focuses on the central importance of “crossover” to the Motown story; first as a key concept in the company’s efforts to reach across American commercial markets, then as a means to extend influence internationally, and finally as a way to expand the brand beyond strictly musical products. Flory’s work reveals the richness of the Motown sound, and equally rich and complex cultural influence Motown still exerts.
Author : Sabrina Marie
Publisher : Retro Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Funk musicians
ISBN : 9781937269654
What can I say about George Clinton? He is the most innovative rock and soul funkster on the planet, he has influenced a few generations of musicians in several music genres and he is STILL creating fresh grooves 60 years into his music career. His music interest started with his being a student of gospel, acapella singers and groups, street corner harmonies that moved the soul and lyrics that were spiritual and from the heart. George started his musical journey with his Doo Wop group, The Parliaments in the mid-1950's. The vocal harmonies and romantic ballads are what inspired him to form his own group.
Author : Rickey Vincent
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1613744951
Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the never-before-heard story of the Black Panthers' R&B band the Lumpen and how five rank-and-file members performed popular music for revolutionaries. Beyond the mainstream civil rights movement that is typically discussed are the stories of the Black Panthers, the Black Arts Movement, the antiwar activism, and other radical movements that were central to the impulse that transformed black popular music—and created soul music.
