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The Broadside, Volumes 1-2 1962
Page 89, 130, 220
Title
The Broadside, Volumes 1-2
Publisher
Broadside., 1962
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
23 Jul 2009
Friday, March 18, 2011
The American Blues Guitar: An Illustrated History By Rick Batey
 | The American Blues Guitar: An Illustrated History |
Product Description
If the story of the blues is the story of a people, then the voice behind the story belongs to the guitar. The American Blues Guitar: An Illustrated History looks at the instruments and the players, from the birth of the blues to the present day. A brief history of the blues is included.From Blind Lemon Jefferson's Martin to T-Bone Walker's Gibson archtop, and from B.B. King's ES 335 to cousin Albert's Flying-V, all the classic makes and models are documented here in detail, with superb photography, serial number data, and everything the diehard collector - and interested fan - needs to identify these great American heirlooms. You'll find Leo Fender's original patent, filed in April 1951, of the Telecaster guitar, and an analysis of what makes it one of the great instruments. Among the blues artists discussed is Texan Albert Collins and his Gibson humbucker. Expert commentary explains why the players chose the models they did, how their choice influenced their sound, and how those sounds can be recreated today. The American Blues Guitar: An Illustrated History is indispensable to the lover of the blues.
Product Details
- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (September 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 063402759X
- ISBN-13: 978-0634027598
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history, Volume 3 By Jack Salzman, David L. Smith, Cornel West
Page 1449, 1735
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues By Paul Myers
 | It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues |
Product Description
Long John Baldry is considered the father of the ‘60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man behind the mythic persona. An entire generation of British rock legends flourished under Baldry's tutelage, and It Ain't Easy features exclusive personal recollections from artists such as Sir Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, John Mayall, and Mick Fleetwood, as well as interviews with renowned music industry insiders like songwriter/producer Tony Macaulay, Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky, ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and others. Extensively researched, It Ain't Easy traces Baldry's extraordinary life from his birth during the London Blitz, to his discovery of black American music, to the sexual revolution, to the musical and social upheaval of the 1960s and '70s, and to his eventual happy retreat to the tranquility of Canada's Pacific Coast.
Product Details
- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Greystone Books (September 28, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1553652002
- ISBN-13: 978-1553652007
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943 By Robert M. W. Dixon, John Godrich
Page 249, 555, 746
This is the 4th edition of a compilation of recording sessions of blues and gospel performers between 1890 and 1943, listed by matrix number and by records issued from that master, listed alphabetically by artist name and in order of recording dates under each artist and who accompanied on what instruments if known. It is mostly of interest to collectors and ethnomusicologists, and is an invaluable resource to us. this edition contains more information than the original edition from 1962, having been revised in 1997.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World By Colleen Josephine Sheehy, Thomas Swiss
 | Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World |
Review
From Library Journal
This new collection of scholarly articles on Bob Dylan proves that there are new angles from which to approach his life, his artistic evolution, and his unmatched influence on music and culture. Dylan is inarguably one of the most dissected and discussed artists, musical or otherwise, of the last half-century, and these 20 distinctive, thoughtful, and erudite essays by, e.g., Greil Marcus and international academics from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, music theory, and African American studies are all welcome additions. As Sheehy (director & CEO, Plains Art Museum) and Swiss (coeditor, New Media Poetics) explain, the articles here do not attempt to solve the myriad puzzles surrounding Dylan; rather, the book poses familiar questions in a fresh manner. Contributions about how Bobby Zimmerman from rural Minnesota became international cultural icon Bob Dylan, what influences his songwriting, and how his songs are having a global impact will be of strong interest to scholars and fans alike. —Douglas King, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Columbia
Book Description
The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his prominence on the worldwide stage, Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss bring together the most eminent Dylan scholars at work today—as well as people from such far-reaching fields as labor history, African American studies, and Japanese studies—to assess Dylan’s career, influences, and his global impact on music and culture.
The Dylan effect has extended far beyond the United States in recent decades, and the essays here analyze his effect on the people and cultures of the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan. With a special focus on his Minnesota roots, including Greil Marcus’s spectacular tour of Dylan’s hometown, contributors also take into account his most recent work and Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home.
The first cultural and historical geography of his dramatic rise, storied career, and unmatched iconic status, Highway 61 Revisited maps the terrain of Bob Dylan’s music in the world.
Contributors: John Barner, U of Minnesota; Daphne Brooks, Princeton U; Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State U; Alessandro Carrera, U of Houston; Michael Cherlin, U of Minnesota; Marilyn J. Chiat; Susan Clayton; Mick Cochrane, Canisius College; Thomas Crow, New York U; Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale; Sumanth Gopinath, U of Minnesota; Charles Hughes; C. P. Lee, U of Salford, Manchester, England; Alex Lubet, U of Minnesota; Greil Marcus, U of California, Berkeley; Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State U; Roberto Polito, The New School; Robert Reginio, Frostburg State U; Heather Stur; Mikiko Tachi, Chiba U, Japan; Gayle Wald, George Washington U; Anne Waldman, Naropa U; David Yaffe, Syracuse U.
Product Details
- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (May 15, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0816661006
- ISBN-13: 978-0816661008
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Page 55 Friday, March 11, 2011
People in the News 1997 By Macmillan Publishing, David Brownstone, Franck
Page 265
 | People in the News 1997 |
This reference covers newsmakers of the prior year. Combines biographical and bibliographical information on political and military leaders, artists, businesspeople, writers and more. Photos and cumulative index in each volume. [Its] main strength. . . lies in providing information about those who have as yet not been profiled in Current Biography.Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin An excellent introduction to contemporary biographical resources, this series will also be well received by those needing a simple way to update Current Biography articles. School Library Journal
Product Details
- Reading level: Young Adult
- Library Binding
- Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.; 7 edition (May 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0028647114
- ISBN-13: 978-0028647111
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: With Spirituals and Ragtime By Paul Oliver, Max Harrison, William Bolcom
 | The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz with Spirituals and Ragtime – illustrated |
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The cultural front: the laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century By Michael Denning
 | The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series) |
Amazon.com Review
The Popular Front, a momentous groundswell of social activism during the Great Depression, was marked by activism among creative artists of all types that called attention to both the ends and the means of the production of art. Later historians would dismiss the socialist and communist elements of this cultural movement as minor sidelines of little if any significance. But, writes historian Michael Denning, "just as the radical movements of abolition, utopian socialism, and women's rights sparked the antebellum American Renaissance, so the communisms of the depression triggered a deep and lasting transformation of American modernism and mass culture, what I will call the laboring of American culture."
Although the early portions of the book, which establish the historical and social contexts of the Popular Front, are interesting, readers may likely find most fascinating the later chapters on some of the artists who took part in the movement, including Billie Holiday, who first began singing "Strange Fruit" at a left-wing cabaret, Duke Ellington, and John Dos Passos. His essay on the antifascist crusading of Orson Welles--"the American Brecht, the single most important Popular Front artist in theater, radio, and film"--is particularly insightful. Like Ann Douglas's Terrible Honesty, The Cultural Front is a panoramic history that brings vibrancy and passion to the telling of American culture. --Ron Hogan
From Library Journal
The American Thirties was a period of fertile political coalitions that drew largely from grass-roots labor and Civil Rights activism to give New Deal liberalism its left-wing content and orientation. Denning (American studies, Yale) is ostensibly concerned here with an examination of the cultural counterpart to that American popular front. The breadth of his study is stunning, ranging from the compositional innovations of Duke Ellington and blues popularizations of Josh White to the Marxist critical theorizing of Kenneth Burke, from Orson Welles's Shakespeare adaptations to Tillie Olson's feminist-labor stories. But this is not a work of popular history in any sense; it is a model of currents in cultural studies. Denning has produced a work that will sit alongside Warren Susman's Culture as History (Pantheon, 1985) as the deepest contemplation of Depression-era popular (and high) culture. For scholars and cultural studies enthusiasts.?Scott H. Silverman, Bryn Mawr Coll. Lib., Pa.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Details
- Paperback: 594 pages
- Publisher: Verso (July 1, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1859841708
- ISBN-13: 978-1859841709
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The Clef/Verve Labels: The MGM era By Michel Ruppli, Bob Porter
Page 488, 727, 772
Buy This Book
Excellent reference book for collectors of Granz's produced recordings. Before this two volume set, there was much confusion about record numbers between the Clef, Norgran, and Verve labels, plus unissued takes and or separate takes on Lps versus 78's. These books clear all of this mess up and is a tremendous undertaking. Must have for the jazz record collector.
Monday, March 7, 2011
The listener's guide to the blues By Peter Guralnick
Page 1948, 1976
Title
The listener's guide to the blues
Author
Peter Guralnick
Publisher
Facts on File, 1982
Length
134 pages
Sunday, March 6, 2011
The New records, Volume 27
Title
The New records, Volume 27
Publisher
H.R. Smith Co., 1959
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
12 Mar 2009
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The Cambridge companion to the guitar By Victor Coelho
Page 103
 | The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (Cambridge Companions to Music) |
Review
'A certain novelty of perspective makes for an enlightening read, leaving the reader at the centre of historical and sociological threads that run across the essays as opposed to hopping from island to island of isolated stylistic pieces ... This wide-angled view permeates the whole book, making for an engaging acknowledgement that social context and direct application of, and experimentation with, technique can transcend genre ... strikes a neat balance between comprehensiveness and depth ...'. Journal of Popular Music
Product Description
Featuring thirteen essays covering different traditions, styles, and instruments, this study is written by influential players, teachers and guitar historians. Its coverage allows the guitarist to learn the analogies and differences between traditions and styles. The genres range from baroque, classical, country, blues and rock to flamenco, African and Celtic.
Product Details
- Paperback: 278 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 21, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521000408
- ISBN-13: 978-0521000406
Friday, March 4, 2011
Music Master deletions - 2001
Page 5
Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Discovering Folk Music By Stephanie P. Ledgin
 | Discovering Folk Music |
Review
"Here's the who, what, when, and where primer for folk music. This guide clearly maps out the scope of a genre that is too often narrowly pigeonholed by its association with banjos and fiddles. No doubt, Discovering Folk Music will become a 'go to' reference for fans and students alike." --Terry Stewart, President, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, 7/22/2009
"Are you a singer-songwriter? Perhaps you listen to Americana music or are learning guitar or banjo. Did you enjoy O Brother, Where Art Thou? Stephanie Ledgin provides an excellent map to explore folk music in history and pop culture. And she is spot on! Reading Discovering Folk Music is akin to hanging out in your best friend's kitchen talking about the music you love. Strongly recommended for players and casual listeners alike." --Mary Sue Twohy, XM15 The Village, the folk channel on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, 7/13/2009
"Stephanie Ledgin makes the case that if you love any music (and who doesn't?), you love folk music but probably never knew it. Discovering Folk Music is a compelling achievement in scope, in purpose, and in the details that make its vast subject comprehensible and 'hands on.' She infuses the music with a history and a context that includes people and stories woven into the fabric of our rich cultural heritage. And as a result, we can cherish America's folk music even more." --Mark Schaffer, Songwriter & President, Folk Project of New Jersey, 7/8/2009
About the Author
STEPHANIE P. LEDGIN is an international award-winning photojournalist, whose 35-year career has spanned publications, recordings, and museums. Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Folkways recording label, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Sing Out! magazine, among others, have featured her work. A former New York City radio-show host, she was director of the New Jersey Folk Festival for 10 years. A founding member of Folk Alliance International, she is the author of Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass (Praeger, 2004; University of Illinois Press, 2006) and From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2005). (edited by author)
Product Details
- Hardcover: 181 pages
- Publisher: Praeger (February 9, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0275993876
- ISBN-13: 978-0275993870
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
American Record Guide, Volume 28 edited by Peter Hugh Reed
Page 163, 601
Title
American Record Guide, Volume 28
Editor
Peter Hugh Reed
Publisher
Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1961
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
16 Nov 2006
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