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Author
Publisher
Black Privilege Publishing/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan. The book begins with America's first great...
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about the whirlwind of creativity, the passionate drive to make art born of individuated experience that is both unique and unduplicatable... This singular new book of profiles represents not so much a summation as a culmination of Peter Guralnick's groundbreaking work over the years, covering not only the vast sweep of the American musical landscape but its profound personal impact on the author as well"--Adapted from jacket flap....
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Presents a companion guide to the PBS documentary series which traces the history and influence of blues music, features conversations and portraits of musicians such as Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, and Eric Clapton, and includes lyrics, photographs, and excerpts from related literature.
19) Great composers
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the vaired history of music from primitive rhythms to the era of great classical masters to the Beatles.
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