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Author | : Andrew Kellett |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472036998 |
An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Author | : Jill Terry |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-07-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1496834933 |
This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and questions of origins and authenticity in folk music, black and white, American and British. The central theme is musical influences, but issues of identity—national, local, and racial—are also recurring subjects. The extent to which these identities were invented, imagined, or constructed by the performers, or by those who recorded their work for posterity, is also a prominent concern and questions of racial identity are particularly central. The book features a new essay on the blues by Paul Oliver alongside an essay on Oliver's seminal blues scholarship. There are also several essays on British blues and the links between performers and styles in the United States and Britain and new essays on critical figures such as Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie. This volume uniquely offers perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the connections and interplay of influences in roots music and the debates about these subjects drawing on the work of eminent established scholars and emerging young academics who are already making a contribution to the field. Throughout, the contributors offer the most recent scholarship available on key issues.
Author | : Roberta Freund Schwartz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317120930 |
This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did Britain get the blues? Blues records by African American artists were released in the United States in substantial numbers between 1920 and the late 1930s, but were sold primarily to black consumers in large urban centres and the rural south. How, then, in an era before globalization, when multinational record releases were rare, did English teenagers in the early 1960s encounter the music of Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Memphis Minnie, and Barbecue Bob? Roberta Schwartz analyses the transmission of blues records to England, from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties. How did the blues, largely banned from the BBC until the mid 1960s, become popular enough to create a demand for re-released material by American artists? When did the British blues subculture begin, and how did it develop? Most significantly, how did the music become a part of the popular consciousness, and how did it change music and expectations? The way that the blues, and various blues styles, were received by critics is a central concern of the book, as their writings greatly affected which artists and recordings were distributed and reified, particularly in the early years of the revival. 'Hot' cultural issues such as authenticity, assimilation, appropriation, and cultural transgression were also part of the revival; these topics and more were interrogated in music periodicals by critics and fans alike, even as English musicians began incorporating elements of the blues into their common musical language. The vinyl record itself, under-represented in previous studies, plays a major part in the story of the blues in Britain. Not only did recordings shape perceptions and listening habits, but which artists were available at any given time also had an enormous impact on the British blues. Schwartz maps the influences on British blues and blues-rock performers and thereby illuminates the stylistic evolution of many genres of British popular music.
Author | : Christopher Hjort |
Publisher | : Jawbone |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2007-02-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Chronology of British blues performances and news.
Author | : Michael E. Urban |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801489006 |
Urban and Evdokimov chronicle the rise of a new cultural idiom in Russia, based on blues music. "Russian blues" is tainted neither by the Soviet past nor with the brash consumerism associated with Westernization. The music of the downtrodden South has become the high culture of Moscow and St Petersburg.
Author | : Linda Joy Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Radio programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Erlewine |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Regional |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780472116959 |
Never-before-seen photographs--with text accompaniment--of the performers onstage and backstage at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival
Author | : John Wagstaff |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
New edition of a reference tool for music libraries in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It lists music periodicals and where they are located, and includes details of the holdings of six libraries in the Republic of Ireland. Entries are presented in a standard format: filing title and subtitle(s); ISSN or other identifier; publication information; miscellaneous notes; and the library's unique identifying symbol followed by holdings information. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Steve Redhead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
"This book offers an alternative perspective on popular music and youth culture in the 1980s and beyond. Based on interviews with disc jockeys, record label owners, musicians, producers and fans, it describes and analyses the shift from New Pop in the early 1980s to what it calls Political Pop in the mid-late 1980s."--From synopsis.
Author | : Scott Christopher Martinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Blues (Music) |
ISBN | : |
In the years following World War II, England faced many challenges as it rebuilt. Within this post-war era, a youth culture was created that resented the culturally conservative society of their parents. This group of youth found an escape from their frustrations in American Rock & Roll music. Through this music, a niche audience of British youth discovered the blues. Blues music became the focus of many British teens' lives as a way of moving away from their parent's generation. Rather than blues music being the driving force that shaped these individuals lives, their experiences as adolescents led them to the music, in turn creating the British blues. This thesis provides a narrative for these events through the voices of the individuals that experienced them first hand. Through musicians like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Muddy Waters, this thesis focuses on the discovery of the blues by British youth and the creation of a blues community in England, as well as the effects of that community on the lives of the American blues musicians who had introduced England to the music. In discovering this music, British blues musicians perpetuated its traditions, introducing it to American audiences and reviving the careers of the African American blues musicians that had influenced them.