Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 1Scarecrow Press, 4 de out. de 2013 - 1030 páginas From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting. |
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... shifting accents. 44. Thomas Hischak (Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia, p. 7) elaborates that it was one of the earliest pop songs to change keys when moving from verse to refrain—the verse starts in C major and ends. 10 Playlist 1.
... shifting accents. 44. Thomas Hischak (Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia, p. 7) elaborates that it was one of the earliest pop songs to change keys when moving from verse to refrain—the verse starts in C major and ends. 10 Playlist 1.
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... verses that outlined a narrative, punctuated by brief eight-bar refrains. Berlin's breakthrough “established a song pattern that would dominate popular music for the next fifty years.” The song's verse was brief and only served to ...
... verses that outlined a narrative, punctuated by brief eight-bar refrains. Berlin's breakthrough “established a song pattern that would dominate popular music for the next fifty years.” The song's verse was brief and only served to ...
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... verse and chorus of the song, but “she makes several alterations in the lyrics even so. Most notably the changes 'pack my trunk and make my git-away' to 'pack my grip' (that is, suitcase), which suggests that she intends to travel ...
... verse and chorus of the song, but “she makes several alterations in the lyrics even so. Most notably the changes 'pack my trunk and make my git-away' to 'pack my grip' (that is, suitcase), which suggests that she intends to travel ...
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... verse and chorus “is proven by the fact that all singers I've ever heard perform the song always start with the verse.” The true strength of the song is its lyric, containing phrases (“tote that barge”) that have become “part of the ...
... verse and chorus “is proven by the fact that all singers I've ever heard perform the song always start with the verse.” The true strength of the song is its lyric, containing phrases (“tote that barge”) that have become “part of the ...
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... verse has deep roots, first quoted by Howard W. Odum in 1911 from a Mississippi song that he heard: “If I die in Arkansa' / Des ship my body to my mother-in-law. / If my mother refuse me, ship it to my pa / If my papa refuse me, ship it ...
... verse has deep roots, first quoted by Howard W. Odum in 1911 from a Mississippi song that he heard: “If I die in Arkansa' / Des ship my body to my mother-in-law. / If my mother refuse me, ship it to my pa / If my papa refuse me, ship it ...
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Playlist 3 Sitting on Top of the World 18902011 | 261 |
Playlist 4 Good Rockin Tonight 19042005 | 347 |
Playlist 5 Jazznocracy 18972010 | 429 |
Playlist 6 Hot Time in the Old Town 18932008 | 509 |
Playlist 7 Fascinating Rhythm 18912008 | 581 |
Playlist 8 Let the Good Times Roll 18952011 | 653 |
Playlist 9 Wasnt That a Time? 18952006 | 729 |
Playlist 10 Memories of You 18892012 | 805 |
Bibliography | 883 |
Title Index | 913 |
Subject Name Index | 957 |
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