The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural cri...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space....Lasīt vairāk
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II, is a follow-up to Volume Is celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space....Lasīt vairāk
Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses especially those of academic analysis and journalistic...Lasīt vairāk
Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. This book suggests investigating the rhythm of English and the rhythm of blues in order to show how the linguistic rhythm of a cultur...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a sequel to the second edition of A Blues Bibliography, covering works published since 2005. Complementing the first volume, it includes extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals, books, and r...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the relationship between three African American womens dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Dec-2011, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118153284)
The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of the trials and tribulations of everyday life....Lasīt vairāk
Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Apr-2009, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195340501)
African American visual artists have often looked to jazz and blues for inspiration. Bringing together scholarly analysis, artist-interviews and numerous illustrations, The Hearing Eye is a groundbreaking collection that explores this vibrant aesthe...Lasīt vairāk
Explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. This work analyses the transmission of blues records to England, from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties. It also ma...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces readers to the basics of finger-style acoustic blues guitar and will go a long way to developing students abilities to take the basics and apply them to their own personal musical growth....Lasīt vairāk
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing a picture of how the blues aesthetic developed, this book examines the blues from its birth in the rural South, through to the heyday of sound recordings and Oliver gives insights into the role blues played in American society before racial...Lasīt vairāk
Jackie Wilson, whose music had thrilled millions throughout the world, died in January, 1984; aged 49. Tony Douglas draws on reminiscences of those closest to Wilson to produce a gripping acount of this remarkable talent and music legend....Lasīt vairāk
Blues: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of the blues; it is ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this treasured American artform....Lasīt vairāk
In Songs in the Key of Black Life, cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal turns his attention to rhythm and blues. He argues that R&B - often dismissed as just a bunch of love songs, yet the second most popular genre in terms of sales - can tell us m...Lasīt vairāk
Little Walter was a master blues harmonica player, immensely popular and celebrated by the likes of Ray Charles and B.B. King. But at the age of 37 he was lying in a paupers grave in Chicago: This book tells the story of his fame and early death....Lasīt vairāk
