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Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646430
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s written by Robert McParland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs created the soundtrack to people's lives during the decade that forever shaped musical composition. Some well-known, others less known, these artists were the song-poets and storytellers who wrote their own music and lyrics. Featuring biographical information and discography overviews for each artist, this is the only one-volume encyclopedic overview of this topic. Featured artists include Carole King and James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis Costello and dozens of other song-poets of the seventies.

The Beatles from A to Zed

Author : Peter Asher
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250209587
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Beatles from A to Zed written by Peter Asher and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its members. He had a front-row seat as they elevated pop music into an art form, and he was present at the creation of some of the most iconic music of our times. Asher is also a talented musician in his own right, with a great ear for what was new and fresh. Once, when Paul McCartney wrote a song that John Lennon didn’t think was right for the Beatles, Asher asked if he could record it. “A World Without Love” became a global No. 1 hit for his duo, Peter & Gordon. A few years later Asher was asked by Paul McCartney to help start Apple Records; the first artist Asher discovered and signed up was a young American singer-songwriter named James Taylor. Before long he would be not only managing and producing Taylor but also (having left Apple and moved to Los Angeles) working with Linda Ronstadt, Neil Diamond, Robin Williams, Joni Mitchell, and Cher, among others. The Beatles from A to Zed grows out of his popular radio program “From Me to You” on SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel, where he shares memories and insights about the Fab Four and their music. Here he weaves his reflections into a whimsical alphabetical journey that focuses not only on songs whose titles start with each letter, but also on recurrent themes in the Beatles’ music, the instruments they played, the innovations they pioneered, the artists who influenced them, the key people in their lives, and the cultural events of the time. Few can match Peter Asher for his fresh and personal perspective on the Beatles. And no one is a more congenial and entertaining guide to their music.

Nilsson

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199330697
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Nilsson written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when huge concerts and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson shunned live performance. His venue was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest triumphs masterful examples of studio craft. He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of performers, including the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's own biggest hits were almost all written by other songwriters. He won two Grammy awards, in 1969 for "Everybody's Talkin'" (the theme song for Midnight Cowboy), and in 1972 for "Without You," had two top ten singles, numerous album successes, and wrote a number of songs--"Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire," to name just two--that still sound remarkably fresh and original today. He was once described by his producer Richard Perry as "the finest white male singer on the planet," but near the end of his life, Nilsson's career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse and the infamous deaths of both Keith Moon and Mama Cass in his London flat. Drawing on exclusive access to Nilsson's papers, Alyn Shipton's biography offers readers an intimate portrait of a man who has seemed both famous and unknowable--until now.

The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

Author : Katherine Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107063647
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter written by Katherine Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d'Urfey through to Kanye West.

Rock Me on the Water

Author : Ronald Brownstein
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062899236
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Rock Me on the Water written by Ronald Brownstein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular culture more than it ever had before, or would again. Working in film, recording, and television studios around Sunset Boulevard, living in Brentwood and Beverly Hills or amid the flickering lights of the Hollywood Hills, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of backlash against the social changes unleashed by the sixties, popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. The early 1970s in Los Angeles was the time and the place where conservatives definitively lost the battle to control popular culture. Rock Me on the Water traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Ronald Brownstein reveals how 1974 represented a confrontation between a massive younger generation intent on change, and a political order rooted in the status quo. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide. Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.

Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock

Author : Ronald D. Lankford, Jr.
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810872692
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock written by Ronald D. Lankford, Jr. and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock provides an overview of the women's singer-songwriter movement during the 1990s with detailed analyses of the music of Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, and Sheryl Crow. The book focuses on the exploration of women's issues within the music, examining how the music's feminist content was able to filter into the popular culture.

Times A-Changin'

Author : Nancy Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197635210
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Times A-Changin' written by Nancy Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is 1969 and Joni Mitchell is on television, standing empty-handed in the middle of a circular stage that is adorned with psychedelic colors. She is wearing a long, hunter-green dress, surrounded by an audience sitting cross-legged on the floor. She waits for television host Dick Cavett to introduce her next performance. The show is filming on the day after the 1969 Woodstock music festival, an event that Mitchell was initially scheduled to attend but from which she was held back by her management to ensure she could perform on The Dick Cavett Show the next day. The host introduces Mitchell and jokes with her about singing a capella, wondering aloud if someone stole her guitar. The singer laughs politely in response, denies any theft, and then proceeds to her performance, explaining to the audience that she will be singing a "song for America" that she wrote "as a Canadian living in this country." With her hands clasped behind her back, she performs "The Fiddle and the Drum" with no accompaniment, channeling the folk performance tradition on which the song is based. This song about military participation is a rare political statement from Mitchell who, unlike her peers Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, had only released this one "protest song" by 1969. But the song's message was not a particularly risky proclamation. Her anti-war narrative echoed the opinions of the young Cavett Show audience that night, aligning with an established trend of resistance against the war in Vietnam. Similar to the way that Mitchell's song "Woodstock" would eventually capture the spirit of an event she did not attend, "The Fiddle and the Drum" characterizes a popular anti-war sentiment in the public consciousness of the late 1960s"--

The Singer-Songwriter in Europe

Author : Isabelle Marc
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016068
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Singer-Songwriter in Europe written by Isabelle Marc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated for a variety of reasons. Many such musicians possess large and zealous followings, their output often esteemed politically and usually held up as the nearest popular music gets to high art, such facets often yielding sizeable economic benefits. Yet this figure, per se, has been the object of scant critical discussion, with individual practitioners celebrated for their isolated achievements instead. In response to this lack of critical knowledge, this volume identifies and interrogates the musical, linguistic, social and ideological elements that configure the singer-songwriter and its various equivalents in Europe, such as the French auteur-compositeur-interprète and the Italian cantautore, since the late 1940s. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of this figure in the post-war period, how and why its contours have changed over time and space subsequently, cross-cultural influences, and the transformative agency of this figure as regards party and identity politics in lyrics and music, often by means of individual case studies. The book's polycentric approach endeavours to redress the hitherto Anglophone bias in scholarship on the singer-songwriter in the English-speaking world, drawing on the knowledge of scholars from across Europe and from a variety of academic disciplines, including modern language studies, musicology, sociology, literary studies and history.

Rock Star

Author : David R. Shumway
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421413922
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Rock Star written by David R. Shumway and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.

The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

Author : Justin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628920300
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Singer-Songwriter Handbook written by Justin Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike. This handbook is divided into four main sections: Songwriting (acoustic and digital), Performance, Music Industry and Case Studies. Section I focuses on the 'how to' elements of popular song composition, embracing a range of perspectives and methods, in addition to chapters on the teaching of songwriting to students. Section II deals with the nature of performance: stagecraft, open mic nights, and a number of case studies that engage with performing in a range of contexts. Section III is devoted to aspects of the music industry and the business of music including sales, contract negotiations, copyright, social media and marketing. Section IV provides specific examples of singer-songwriter personae and global open mic scenes. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook is a much-needed single resource for budding singer-songwriters as well as songwriting pedagogues.

Pickers and Poets

Author : Craig E. Clifford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494478
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Pickers and Poets written by Craig E. Clifford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic quality and substance of the lyrics are front and center. Obvious candidates for this category would include Townes Van Zandt, Michael Martin Murphey, Guy Clark, Steve Fromholz, Terry Allen, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Bell, and David Rodriguez. In a sense, what these songwriters were doing in small, intimate live-music venues like the Jester Lounge in Houston, the Chequered Flag in Austin, and the Rubaiyat in Dallas was similar to what Bob Dylan was doing in Greenwich Village. In the language of the times, these were “folksingers.” Unlike Dylan, however, these were folksingers writing songs about their own people and their own origins and singing in their own vernacular. This music, like most great poetry, is profoundly rooted. That rootedness, in fact, is reflected in the book’s emphasis on place and the powerful ways it shaped and continues to shape the poetry and music of Texas singer-songwriters. From the coffeehouses and folk clubs where many of the “founders” got their start to the Texas-flavored festivals and concerts that nurtured both their fame and the rise of a new generation, the indelible stamp of origins is inseparable from the work of these troubadour-poets. Please see the listing for the print edition to view the table of contents for this title.

The Heroine's Bookshelf

Author : Erin Blakemore
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016644
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Heroine's Bookshelf written by Erin Blakemore and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore’s exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today’s women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters—including Anne Shirley, Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, and Jane Eyre—and outstanding authors—like Jane Austen, Harper Lee, and Laura Ingalls Wilder—is an impassioned look at literature’s most compelling heroines, both on the page and off. Readers who found inspiration in books by Toni Morrison, Maud Hart Lovelace, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Alice Walker, or who were moved by literary-themed memoirs like Shelf Discovery and Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, get ready to return to the well of women’s classic literature with The Heroine's Bookshelf.

The Easy Seventies Fake Book (Songbook)

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458458156
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Easy Seventies Fake Book (Songbook) written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). This series of beginning fake books for players new to "faking" includes: 100 memorable songs, all in the key of C * lyrics * chords which have been simplified, but remain true to each tune * easy-to-read, large music notation. Songs from the '70s edition include: American Pie * Baby, I Love Your Way * Crocodile Rock * Drift Away * Free Bird * I'll Take You There * Joy to the World * Let It Be * My Way * Stayin' Alive * Wonderful Tonight * Y.M.C.A. * dozens more.

Journey of a Song 60's & 70's

Author : Warren Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990319009
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Journey of a Song 60's & 70's written by Warren Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip with me as we journey through some of the most loved songs of the 60's and 70's. This is your backstage pass into the lives of the singer-songwriters and the music they created...the very origins of them. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the stories behind the songs. Who wrote them? When? Where? Why? These songs make up a musical landscape that became the soundtrack of a whole generation.

Piano Singer/Songwriters

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1705115098
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Piano Singer/Songwriters written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 40 piano-themed classics as performed by some of popular music's most-loved singer/songwriters in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Songs include: All of Me (John Legend) * Come Away with Me (Norah Jones) * I Will Remember You (Sarah McLachlan) * Imagine (John Lennon) * It's Too Late (Carole King) * Love Song (Sara Bareilles) * No One (Alicia Keys) * Piano Man (Billy Joel) * Ribbon in the Sky (Stevie Wonder) * Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi) * The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby) * Your Song (Elton John) * and more.

American Troubadours

Author : Mark Brend
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879306410
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book American Troubadours written by Mark Brend and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The others are still known only to relatively small groups of enthusiasts - critics, knowledgeable collectors, and other musicians. This book tells their stories."--BOOK JACKET.

People's Science

Author : Ruha Benjamin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786739
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book People's Science written by Ruha Benjamin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy.” —Daniel R. Morrison, American Journal of Sociology Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefit—or don’t—from regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society. People’s Science uncovers the tension between scientific innovation and social equality, taking the reader inside California’s 2004 stem cell initiative, the first of many state referenda on scientific research, to consider the lives it has affected. Benjamin reveals the promise and peril of public participation in science, illuminating issues of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class that serve to define certain groups as more or less deserving in their political aims and biomedical hopes. Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues that without more deliberate consideration about how scientific initiatives can and should reflect a wider array of social concerns, stem cell research—from African Americans’ struggle with sickle cell treatment to the recruitment of women as tissue donors—still risks excluding many. Even as regenerative medicine is described as a participatory science for the people, Benjamin asks us to consider if “the people” ultimately reflects our democratic ideals.