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Author : Samuel A. Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Music Biography written by Samuel A. Floyd and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : RJ Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561106
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The One written by RJ Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling showman who transformed American music. His life offstage was just as vibrant, and until now no biographer has delivered a complete profile. The One draws on interviews with more than 100 people who knew Brown personally or played with him professionally. Using these sources, award-winning writer RJ Smith draws a portrait of a man whose twisted and amazing life helps us to understand the music he made. The One delves deeply into the story of a man who was raised in abject-almost medieval-poverty in the segregated South but grew up to earn (and lose) several fortunes. Covering everything from Brown's unconventional childhood (his aunt ran a bordello), to his role in the Black Power movement, which used "Say It Loud (I'm Black and Proud)" as its anthem, to his high-profile friendships, to his complicated family life, Smith's meticulous research and sparkling prose blend biography with a cultural history of a pivotal era. At the heart of The One is Brown's musical genius. He had crucial influence as an artist during at least three decades; he inspires pity, awe, and revulsion. As Smith traces the legend's reinvention of funk, soul, R&B, and pop, he gives this history a melody all its own.
Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050614
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Black Opera written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
Author : John Kruth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1480354937
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Rhapsody in Black written by John Kruth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RHAPSODY IN BLACK: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ROY ORBISON
Author : Maureen Mahon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012773
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Black Diamond Queens written by Maureen Mahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Author : Danyel Smith
Publisher : Roc Lit 101
ISBN 13 : 0593132734
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Shine Bright written by Danyel Smith and published by Roc Lit 101. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) “Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo. Smith’s detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley. Shine Bright is an overdue paean to musical masters whose true stories and genius have been hidden in plain sight—and the book Danyel Smith was born to write.
Author : Eleanora E. Tate
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471253563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (535 download)
Download or read book African American Musicians written by Eleanora E. Tate and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the black musicians who created Americais greatest music--from the early years to modern times Marian Anderson Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Chuck Berry Thomas "Blind Tom" Greene Bethune Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle James Brown Ray Charles Edmund Dede Thomas Andrew Dorsey Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald Aretha Franklin Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield W. C. Handy Mahalia Jackson Michael Jackson Francis Hall Johnson Scott Joplin B. B. King Queen Latifah Millie-Christine McCoy Jessye Norman Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (Pridgett) Doug and Frankie Quimby Paul Robeson Bessie Smith Stevie Wonder
Author : Mark Berresford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800850
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book That's Got 'Em! written by Mark Berresford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Best History (tie) (2011) Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent transformed every genre of black music before the advent of rock and roll—“pickaninny” bands, minstrelsy, circus sideshows, vaudeville (both black and white), night clubs, and cabarets. Sweatman was the first African American musician to be offered a long-term recording contract, and he dazzled listeners with jazz clarinet solos before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's so-called “first jazz records.” Sweatman toured the vaudeville circuit for over twenty years and presented African American music to white music lovers without resorting to the hitherto obligatory “plantation” costumes and blackface makeup. His bands were a fertile breeding ground of young jazz talent, featuring such future stars as Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, and Jimmie Lunceford. Sweatman subsequently played pioneering roles in radio and recording production. His high profile and sterling reputation in both the black and white entertainment communities made him a natural choice for administering the estate of Scott Joplin and other notable black performers and composers. That's Got 'Em! is the first full-length biography of this pivotal figure in black popular culture, providing a compelling account of his life and times.
Author : A. B. Spellman
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780805202816
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Black Music, Four Lives written by A. B. Spellman and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eileen Southern
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians written by Eileen Southern and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1982 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stimulus this handsomely produced volume will provide to research and teaching may well surpass that offered by Dr. Southern's earlier studies. This major accomplishment belongs in the libraries of all individuals and institutions interested in any aspect of American music." Ethnomusiciology
Author : William C. Banfield
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877864
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Representing Black Music Culture written by William C. Banfield and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William C. Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry and paying homage to Black music of the last forty years and beyond. The essays and interviews in Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again? are enhanced by seven years of daily diary entries that reflect on some of the country's most respected Black composers, recording artists, authors, and cultural icons, including Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Gordon Parks, the Marsalis brothers, Maya Angelou, Patrice Rushen, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and Quincy Jones. Although many of the individuals Banfield lauds are well known to most readers, he also turns his attention to musicians and artists whose work, while perhaps unheralded by the world at large, is no less deserving of praise and respect for their contributions. In addition, this volume is filled with candid photographs of many artists participating in expressive culture, whether on stage, on tour, in clubs, in rehearsal, or teaching class. This unique book will be of interest to scholars and students, as well as general readers interested in absorbing and appreciating Black culture. Book jacket.
Author : William Barlow
Publisher : Elliott & Clark
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Swing to Soul written by William Barlow and published by Elliott & Clark. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Swing to Soul is set against the cultural and economic changes of the times and charts the transformation from Depression-era rural blues to urban blues, from big-band jazz or "swing" to modern jazz or "be-bop", from rhythm and blues to rock-'n'-roll, and on to soul.Barlow's essays highlight the different settings in which black music flourished. Biographies chronicle the lives of composers, instrumentalists, and vocalists who shaped black contributions to the American "soundscape".The text is illustrated with compelling photographs of household names -- Ellington, Basie, Waller, Parker, Holiday, Cole -- and lesser-known luminaries such as Lizzie "Memphis Minnie" Douglas.This musical era continues to reverberate in today's popular rock, rap, jazz, and hip-hop -- a legacy of the tenacious genius of its creators.
Author : Joan Cartwright, M.A.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557060109
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A History of African-American Jazz and Blues written by Joan Cartwright, M.A. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three essays and interviews with photographs by author and musician Joan Cartwright about the creation of blues in America by Africans captured for servitude on Euro-American plantations over a span of 400 years. This book should be read by music students and enthusiasts, alike.
Author : Tom Reed
Publisher : Black Accent on L A Press
ISBN 13 : 9780963290861
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Black Music History of Los Angeles, Its Roots written by Tom Reed and published by Black Accent on L A Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernie Hayes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595354637
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Death of Black Radio written by Bernie Hayes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over fifty years of experience in journalism and radio, author Bernie J. Hayes delivers a detailed personal account of the history of the Black radio industry. Since the 1940s, African-American radio personalities have developed, engineered, and urbanized "soul radio". Their influence has helped to shape the history of radio and the recording industry. But even though Black radio personalities at one time provided cultural continuity for the race, record companies and the current hip-hop movement that dominate the business today have encouraged songs with sometimes suggestive and obscene lyrics that cause division. This cultural shift has impacted the African-American's attempts to gain fairness in the media, a fight that began in the Jim Crow South and lasted through the years of the Black Migration to today. Although there has been a great diversity in the history of radio, the economic motives of some station owners demonstrate how many current practices betray the promises of the Emancipation Proclamation. With compelling insight into American culture, The Death of Black Radio shares the remarkable journey of the African-American radio experience in America.
Author : Jimmy McDonough
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822687
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Soul Survivor written by Jimmy McDonough and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography presents the first in-depth biography of the legendary soul singer Al Green. Al Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years. "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," "Let's Get Married," and "I'm Tired of Being Alone" are but a sampling of the iconic songs that led a generation to embrace love in perhaps the most tumultuous period in this country's history, an unparalleled body of work that has many calling Green one of the greatest soul singers of all time. The music legend has sold over 20 million albums and been sampled by numerous rappers, and even President Obama has been known to sing a chorus or two. The now-Bishop Green is without a doubt one of the most beloved yet inscrutable figures ever to grace the popular music stage, and he has managed to magically sidestep being successfully scrutinized in print. Until now. Acclaimed journalist and author Jimmy McDonough expertly tackles this most elusive of subjects and aims to present readers with the definitive portrait of a man everyone knows but few understand. McDonough manages to break through Green's joyous veneer to reveal the contrary, tortured, and solitary individual beneath, a man who spent decades dancing an uneasy tightrope between the sacred and the profane. From his childhood in the backwaters of Arkansas to commanding the stage in front of throngs of lusting fans to addressing a very different audience from the pulpit of his own church, readers will bear witness to the creation of some of the most electrifying soul music ever recorded; learn the hitherto untold real story behind Green's colorful down-home Memphis label, Hi Records; and--by way of countless in-depth interviews with major players in the story, some speaking for the very first time--unravel one of the last great mysteries in popular music: Al Green.
Author : Geoff Brown
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857120328
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The Life of James Brown written by Geoff Brown and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive biography of this extraordinary and controversial superstar, written by Geoff Brown, a former editor of Black Music magazine. For three decades James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others were as inspirational in the short term, and several of his successors have been bigger pop stars, but none matched Brown's independent authority, sustained influence or commercial longevity. But while another generation danced to the pulse of James Brown, at the end of the eighties the man himself was back in a southern US jail, a country mile or so from where he was incarcerated in his teens. between the two internments is the compelling story if a man who, by reaching from his roots and striving determinedly for himself, came to represent in music and personal power the post-war emancipation of black America. Illustrated with many rare photographs and includes a comprehensive discography.
