Author: Jerrold Northrop Moore
Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN: 9781860742354
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fascinating biography of Fred Gaisberg, founding father of commercial recording. A visionary of music technology, his artistic integrity and commercial instinct characterized a recording career, which spanned from 1890 to 1950.
Revolutions in Sound
Author: Warren Zane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
For half a century, Warner Bros. Records has rocked the world. Frank Sinatra, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, and Madonna have all recorded for the labeland this celebratory anniversary book tells their inside stories and hundreds more, with photographs, many never before seen, from the Warner Bros. archives. Also featured are groudbreaking comedians, from Bob Newhart to Steve Martin. This book goes into the recording studios and on the cover shoots, and on tour with the biggest names in music. Join the 50th anniversary party in a nonstop celebration of American music.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
For half a century, Warner Bros. Records has rocked the world. Frank Sinatra, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, and Madonna have all recorded for the labeland this celebratory anniversary book tells their inside stories and hundreds more, with photographs, many never before seen, from the Warner Bros. archives. Also featured are groudbreaking comedians, from Bob Newhart to Steve Martin. This book goes into the recording studios and on the cover shoots, and on tour with the biggest names in music. Join the 50th anniversary party in a nonstop celebration of American music.
Musical Revolutions
Author: Stuart Isacoff
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525658645
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history—classical and jazz—all of which forever altered Western culture "A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time.”—Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and music director of the Czech Philharmonic The invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church’s pious restraints. Baroque, Romantic, and atonal music; bebop and cool jazz; Bach and Liszt; Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In telling the exciting story of Western music’s evolution, Stuart Isacoff explains how music became entangled in politics, culture, and economics, giving rise to new eruptions at every turn, from the early church’s attempts to bind its followers by teaching them to sing in unison to the global spread of American jazz through the Black platoons of the First World War. The author investigates questions like: When does noise become music? How do musical tones reflect the natural laws of the universe? Why did discord become the primary sound of modernity? Musical Revolutions is a book replete with the stories of our most renowned musical artists, including notable achievements of people of color and women, whose paths to success were the most difficult.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525658645
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history—classical and jazz—all of which forever altered Western culture "A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time.”—Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and music director of the Czech Philharmonic The invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church’s pious restraints. Baroque, Romantic, and atonal music; bebop and cool jazz; Bach and Liszt; Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In telling the exciting story of Western music’s evolution, Stuart Isacoff explains how music became entangled in politics, culture, and economics, giving rise to new eruptions at every turn, from the early church’s attempts to bind its followers by teaching them to sing in unison to the global spread of American jazz through the Black platoons of the First World War. The author investigates questions like: When does noise become music? How do musical tones reflect the natural laws of the universe? Why did discord become the primary sound of modernity? Musical Revolutions is a book replete with the stories of our most renowned musical artists, including notable achievements of people of color and women, whose paths to success were the most difficult.
Revolutions in Music Education
Author: Jane Southcott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666907065
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations chronicles major changes in music education that continue to shape practices in the twenty-first century. The contributors investigate the organizational, pedagogical, and strategic approaches to teaching music across the ages. The universality of music is manifest in the chapters of this book, providing meaning and insight from all geographic, socio-political, and economic contexts.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666907065
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations chronicles major changes in music education that continue to shape practices in the twenty-first century. The contributors investigate the organizational, pedagogical, and strategic approaches to teaching music across the ages. The universality of music is manifest in the chapters of this book, providing meaning and insight from all geographic, socio-political, and economic contexts.
Sound Revolutions
Author: Jerrold Northrop Moore
Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN: 9781860742354
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fascinating biography of Fred Gaisberg, founding father of commercial recording. A visionary of music technology, his artistic integrity and commercial instinct characterized a recording career, which spanned from 1890 to 1950.
Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN: 9781860742354
Category : Phonograph
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fascinating biography of Fred Gaisberg, founding father of commercial recording. A visionary of music technology, his artistic integrity and commercial instinct characterized a recording career, which spanned from 1890 to 1950.
Noise Uprising
Author: Michael Denning
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781688567
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana’s son, Rio’s samba, New Orleans’ jazz, Buenos Aires’ tango, Seville’s flamenco, Cairo’s tarab, Johannesburg’s marabi, Jakarta’s kroncong, and Honolulu’s hula. They triggered the first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781688567
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana’s son, Rio’s samba, New Orleans’ jazz, Buenos Aires’ tango, Seville’s flamenco, Cairo’s tarab, Johannesburg’s marabi, Jakarta’s kroncong, and Honolulu’s hula. They triggered the first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.
The Revolution’s Echoes
Author: Nomi Dave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665463X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665463X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
Sound System
Author: Dave Randall
Publisher: Left Book Club
ISBN: 9780745399300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.
Publisher: Left Book Club
ISBN: 9780745399300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.
33 Revolutions Per Minute
Author: Dorian Lynskey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571241354
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war. Dorian Lynskey explores the individuals, ideas and events behind each song, showing how protest music has soundtracked and informed social change since the 1930s. Through the work of such artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Fela Kuti, The Clash, Public Enemy and Gil Scott Heron, Lynskey examines how music has engaged with racial unrest, nuclear paranoia, apartheid, war, poverty and oppression, offering hope, stirring anger, inciting action and producing songs which continue to resonate years down the line.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571241354
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war. Dorian Lynskey explores the individuals, ideas and events behind each song, showing how protest music has soundtracked and informed social change since the 1930s. Through the work of such artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Fela Kuti, The Clash, Public Enemy and Gil Scott Heron, Lynskey examines how music has engaged with racial unrest, nuclear paranoia, apartheid, war, poverty and oppression, offering hope, stirring anger, inciting action and producing songs which continue to resonate years down the line.
Soundtrack of the Revolution
Author: Nahid Seyedsayamdost
Publisher: Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
ISBN: 9780804792899
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The politics of music -- The nightingale rebels -- The musical guide : Mohammad Reza Shajarian -- Revolution and ruptures -- Opening the floodgates to pop music : Alireza Assar -- Rebirth of independent music -- Purposefully "fālsh" : Mohsen Namjoo -- Going underground -- Rap-e Farsi : Hichkas -- The music of politics
Publisher: Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
ISBN: 9780804792899
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The politics of music -- The nightingale rebels -- The musical guide : Mohammad Reza Shajarian -- Revolution and ruptures -- Opening the floodgates to pop music : Alireza Assar -- Rebirth of independent music -- Purposefully "fālsh" : Mohsen Namjoo -- Going underground -- Rap-e Farsi : Hichkas -- The music of politics
Only Revolutions
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375421769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375421769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.