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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chicago is recognized around the world for its place in the history of jazz, gospel, and the blues. Far less known is the surprisingly important role Chicago played in country music and the folk revival. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Mark Guarino tells a forgotten story of music in Chicago and reveals how the city's institutions and personalities influenced sounds we today associate with regions further south. It is...
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Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
<p>Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music, including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss. <i>In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey</i> is Rooney’s kaleidoscopic firsthand account of more than five decades of success as a performer,...
Author
Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Discusses the essence and development of various forms of Negro folk music, both vocal and instrumental, including ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs, Louisiana Creole songs, cries, dances, and game songs. Includes words and music for forty-three songs, and discographies.
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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must encompass the work of artists as diverse as Alice Gerrard and Alison Krauss, George Thorogood and Sun Ra, Bela Fleck and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, the Blake Babies and Billy Strings. What do all these artists and music styles have in common? The answer...
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Episode 1 traces the emergence of roots music in America from its European and African origins through its maturation into American music genres. Episode 2 explores the period in which different strands of roots music became commercialized through the mass media and folk music was redefined to include songs written in response to social causes.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Episode 3 traces the emergence of American roots music as catalized by the folk and blues revivals and highlights gospel music's golden years. Episode 4 focuses on the inclusion of types of ethnic music previously excluded from American popular culture, such as Cajun music, tejano music, and forms of Native American music.
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