Song Title Index to Brian Rust's Jazz and Ragtime Records (1897-1942).
Author: Malcolm Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780967181950
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Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780967181950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 022606767X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 1401
ISBN-13: 1135865086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.
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Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-01-03
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0786472383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.
Author: Steven C. Tracy
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2015-06
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 0817318658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature examines the diverse ways in which African American "hot" music influenced American culture - particularly literature - in early twentieth-century America. Steven C. Tracy provides a history of the fusion of African and European elements that formed African American "hot" music, and considers how terms like ragtime, jazz, and blues developed their own particular meanings for American music and society. He draws from the fields of literature, literary criticism, cultural anthropology, American studies, and folklore to demonstrate how blues as a musical and poetic form has been a critical influence on American literature. -- from dust jacket.
Author: Brian Rust
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : Mainspring Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13:
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Author: Robert Balay
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13:
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