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Author | : David A. Jasen |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-02-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486144577 |
Definitive history traces the genre's growth and diversification from its 19th-century origins through its heyday and modern revival. Discusses 48 major composers and 800 rags. More than 100 photos.
Author | : Rudi Blesh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258516529 |
Author | : Edward A. Berlin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1996-01-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0195356462 |
In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a "Top Ten" position in the pop charts, Joplin's music was also being performed in classical recitals and setting new heights for sales of classical records. His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin. A renowned authority on Joplin and the author of the acclaimed and widely cited Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History, Berlin redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Using the tools of a trained musicologist, he has uncovered a vast amount of new information about Joplin. His biography truly documents the story of the composer, replacing the myths and unsupported anecdotes of previous histories. He shows how Joplin's opera Treemonisha was a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned. Berlin also reveals that Joplin was an associate of Irving Berlin, and that he accused Berlin of stealing his music to compose Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Berlin paints a vivid picture of the ragtime years, placing Scott Joplin's story in its historical context. The composer emerges as a representative of the first post-Civil War generation of African Americans, of the men and women who found in the world of entertainment a way out of poverty and lowly social status. King of Ragtime recreates the excitement of these pioneers, who dreamed of greatness as they sought to expand the limits society placed upon their race.
Author | : Nancy R. Ping Robbins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 113583153X |
First Published in 1998. This book is the first resource guide to published materials on Scott Joplin and encompasses a wide variety of items having to do with the man, his Iife, his music, and his influence on ragtime throughout the twentieth century. This guide includes articles and listings on festivals, concerts, clubs or societies, individual performers, performing groups, radio, television, and film as well as bibliography on Joplin and ragtime in general.
Author | : Charles Hamm |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521028615 |
Essays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.
Author | : Nicholas Cook |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2004-08-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521662567 |
Author | : Irving Berlin |
Publisher | : A-R Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Piano music (Ragtime) |
ISBN | : 0895793059 |
Author | : Elijah Wald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199753563 |
"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television --to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of music that captivated listeners over the course of the twentieth century. Wald revisits original sources--recordings, period articles, memoirs, and interviews--to highlight how music was actually heard and experienced over the years. And in a refreshing departure from more typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks for example at the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk of its early audience. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent the mainstream of their times. Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears.
Author | : Russell Roberts |
Publisher | : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2012-09-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1612283497 |
Ragtime was an immensely popular form of music in the United States prior to World War I. Its toe–tapping style was exactly what a country like America, bursting into the 20th century full of excitement and enthusiasm, desired. Ragtime was uniquely American—just as America was unique among all the nations in the world. Scott Joplin was the King of Ragtime. His ragtime songs defined the genre and brought it into the homes of millions of people. Yet Joplin wanted more than that. He wanted to be known as a serious artist, a man whose work would elevate him along with the entire African–American community. His struggles in that regard make his life story all the more memorable.
Author | : David Dicaire |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-10-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0786485566 |
The story of the first roughly half century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald all made tremendous contributions, influencing countless jazz musicians and singers. This work provides biographical sketches of the aforementioned artists and many others who made jazz so popular in the first half of the twentieth century. Biographies cover the pioneers of jazz in New Orleans in the late 1890s and early 1900s; the soloists who fueled the Jazz Age in the 1920s; the musicians and bandleaders of the big band and swing era of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and icons from the height of jazz's popularity on through the end of the war. A discography is provided for each artist.