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  • The Rise of Gospel Blues

    The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

    In the early 1930s an exciting new musical form arose in Chicago known as the gospel blues. The principal figure in the creation of this distinctive music was a blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for such prominent blues singers as Ma Rainey. In the 1930s, Dorsey became increasingly involved in the African-American ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of Gospel Blues

    The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

    In the early 1930s an exciting new musical form arose in Chicago known as the gospel blues. The principal figure in the creation of this distinctive music was a blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for such prominent blues singers as Ma Rainey. In the 1930s, Dorsey became increasingly involved in the African-American ... Leer más

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  • Talking Music: Blues Radio and Roots Music

    Talking Music is a collection of nineteen of Holger Petersens in-depth radio interviews with artiststhe pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music in North America. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with ustheir stories need to be told. The book is divided into four collections of interviews: British Blues ... Leer más

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  • Willie Dixon

    Preacher of the Blues

    Series series African American Cultural Theory and Heritage
    One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, Dixon's work influenced countless artists across the music spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi Inaba examines Dixon's career, from his earliest recordings with the Five Breezes through his major work with ... Leer más

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  • Mississippi John Hurt

    His Life, His Times, His Blues

    Series series American Made Music Series
    When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful, authentic past. His intricate and lively style made him the most sought after musician among the many ... Leer más

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  • The Power of Black Music

    Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Leer más

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  • In The Break

    The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

    de Fred Moten ...
    Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair, ... Leer más

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  • Words on Music

    Quotations from the greats of popular music

    You've heard the music and read the biographies. Now gain insight to the greats of popular music through their own words. This book is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes from the premier artists of pop, rock, jazz, and the blues.Comments on the business of making music are found here as well as many fascinating and often surprising observations on life in general. ... Leer más

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  • Celebrating Bird

    The Triumph of Charlie Parker

    de Gary Giddins ...
    Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the ... Leer más

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  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

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    Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts ... Leer más

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  • In Search of the Blues

    Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only ... Leer más

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  • Shadows Across The Moon

    Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans And The Making Of Ibiza Clubland

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    Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually fought over since the era of the Phoenicians. During the 20th century it gained its reputation as a countercultural hotbed after it became a melting pot for bohemians and dropouts who had come there in search of adventure. Pretty soon Ibiza became a crossroads for experimental musicians, writers and ... Leer más

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