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Crooner
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Author : Alex Coles
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2023-07-24
Crooner written by Alex Coles and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-24 with Music categories.
An intimate history of the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. In this book, Alex Coles explores the history of the crooner—someone who sings close to the mic in a soft style—in popular music from the 1950s to the present. Each chapter focuses on how one song by one artist contributes to the image of the crooner in the popular imagination. The book describes the rich diversity of crooners throughout music history, including artists in disco, rock, hip-hop, and more such as Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Barry White, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Tom Waits, Grace Jones, Ian McCulloch, Nick Cave, and Nas. Ultimately, Coles shows how the crooner continues to connect listeners with their hidden feelings.
Bing Crosby
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Author : Richard Grudens
language : en
Publisher: celebrity profiles publilshing
Release Date : 2003
Bing Crosby written by Richard Grudens and has been published by celebrity profiles publilshing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is the quintessential Bing Crosby tribute from the pen of author and music historian, Richard Grudens, documenting the story of Crosby's colourful life, family, radio and television shows, and films; the amazing success story of a career that pioneered popular music spanning generations and inspiring many followers: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Pat Boone, Elvis Presley and Billy Eckstine, all of whom acknowledge their debt right between the covers of this book. An inspirational introduction by his lovely wife, Kathryn Grant Crosby, is followed by endearing, anecdotal accounts of those ubiquitous 'Road' films with Bob Hope, and detailed personal testimonials from show business icons in their own words. A 'must read' for Crosby fans, collectors, admirers, music lovers, and everyone who cherishes the music and anecdotes of the players involved in the Golden Age of Popular Music.
Real Men Don T Sing
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Author : Allison McCracken
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Real Men Don T Sing written by Allison McCracken and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Music categories.
The crooner Rudy Vallée's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallée and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge to the Depression era's more conservative masculine norms led cultural authorities to stigmatize them as gender and sexual deviants. In Real Men Don't Sing Allison McCracken outlines crooning's history from its origins in minstrelsy through its development as the microphone sound most associated with white recording artists, band singers, and radio stars. She charts early crooners’ rise and fall between 1925 and 1934, contrasting Rudy Vallée with Bing Crosby to demonstrate how attempts to contain crooners created and dictated standards of white masculinity for male singers. Unlike Vallée, Crosby survived the crooner backlash by adapting his voice and persona to adhere to white middle-class masculine norms. The effects of these norms are felt to this day, as critics continue to question the masculinity of youthful, romantic white male singers. Crooners, McCracken shows, not only were the first pop stars: their short-lived yet massive popularity fundamentally changed American culture.
The Rise Of The Crooners
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Author : Michael Pitts
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2001-12-22
The Rise Of The Crooners written by Michael Pitts and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-22 with Music categories.
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee—these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition. Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth century, intermingling with jazz and fronting the big band craze of the thirties and forties. Crooners spurred the rise of radio as home staple and the Golden Age of film musicals. When commercial television became a viable commodity, crooners anchored perhaps the first TV programming innovation, the variety show. It took the cataclysmic aesthetic and cultural changes ushered in by rock 'n' roll in the 1950s to finally bring crooners down from their pedestal. The Rise of the Crooners examines the historical trends and events that led to the emergence of the crooning style. Ian Whitcomb, a successful popular music vocalist himself for almost 40 years, provides a personal perspective on this phenomenon. The lives and careers of six pioneers of the style—Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Gene Austin, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Marvin, and Nick Lucas—are covered at length. With the exception of one entry devoted to Crosby—possibly the greatest entertainer of the past century—these biographies (appended by lengthy bibliographies and discographies) are more thorough and up-to-date than any treatment in print about these seminal artists.
The Crooner
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Author : Aubrey Priest
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008-04
The Crooner written by Aubrey Priest and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Fiction categories.
Ten friends go on a trip to Las Vegas looking for the fun excitement, women and the pure rush of living the high life in Sin City. One of the ten men has a dark secret that will cast them into the depths of Hell as they find themselves trapped in the underbelly of the city that never sleeps. Their friendship is replaced by a profound brotherhood as they fight to stay alive while playing a deadly and unrelenting game of cat and mouse with killers around every corner and people conspiring against them at every turn. Trained assassins want the ten men dead while the leader of a terrorist sleeper cells seeks vengence against the assasins. The FBI and Las Vegas PD are driven to stop the bad guys before they kill again. Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows is the biggest threat to them all, The Crooner.
Crooner
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Author : Rian James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Crooner written by Rian James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with New York (N.Y.) categories.
Crooner
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Author : Manolo Cristian Abbondati
language : it
Publisher: Youcanprint
Release Date : 2015-06-17
Crooner written by Manolo Cristian Abbondati and has been published by Youcanprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-17 with Fiction categories.
Il romanzo di sviluppa nel mondo della musica Jazz, Pop, R&B e Latino-Americana, dove un giovane cantante (Chris), appassionato di musica Jazz, con la quale in America, con l'aiuto del suo mentore un Crooner affermato (Pasquale Merigliano), riesce a raggiungere il successo. Ma nella vita non tutto funziona come ce lo auspichiamo, così per colpa della donna sbagliata, i sogni di Chirs si infrangono, portandolo ad una crisi artistico-esistenziale. L'amore e la vera amicizia saranno il balsamo che farà rinascere ogni cosa? Le vicende di questo romanzo, si alternano tra: Dramma, amore e amicizia, senza trascurare momenti di ilarità che attraverso personaggi bizzarri si avvicendano scene di comicità.
You Call It Madness
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Author : Lenny Kaye
language : en
Publisher: Villard Books
Release Date : 2004
You Call It Madness written by Lenny Kaye and has been published by Villard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Crosby, Vallee, Columbo. They are their own trinity. Bing is the universal dad. Rudy the misbehaving son.That leaves Russ. The holy ghost. New York, 1931: The curtain falls on the Ziegfeld Follies, a victim of the rising popularity of talking pictures; Rudy Vallee, radio’s wildly popular “Vagabond Lover,” worries that increasingly sophisticated microphones and Hollywood-minted heartthrobs will make his megaphone-amplified vocals passé; a pugnacious, hard-drinking baritone named Bing Crosby cleans up his act, preparing to take America by storm on CBS radio; and handsome twenty-three-year-old Russ Columbo, a former violinist dating a Ziegfeld girl, makes his debut on NBC radio. In an America poised to take its dominant place on the world stage, the Crooner points the way forward. With his heated core of sex appeal wrapped in well-tailored layers of cool distance and cigarette smoke, the Crooner brings something new to the country’s self-image: this is no Yankee-Doodle Dandy, but a suave and seductive figure, sophisticated as any European, flush with youthful strength and energy. It’s all there in his voice, his croon: a soft, intimate, sensual form of singing that combines jazz sensibilities with the smooth and danceable rhythms of the Big Band sound and Swing. But who would embody the new archetype? Vallee crooned too soon. That left Crosby and Columbo to duel it out over the airwaves. Hailed as “The Romeo of Radio” and “The Valentino of Song,” romantically linked to actresses Pola Negri and Carole Lombard, Columbo is all but forgotten today, his limitless promise cut short in a tragic and controversial accident as he stood on the verge of winning the stardom that Crosby, his great rival, would soon achieve. In this impressionistic tour-de-force–a musical history combining the drama of a bestselling novel and a soundtrack from the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood–master musician and critic Lenny Kaye trains a spotlight on Columbo while crooning a love song to an earlier America–a pitch-perfect evocation of one of the most romantic, creatively exuberant periods of our past–an era whose influence still burns brightly in the music and popular culture of today.
Russ Columbo And The Crooner Mystique
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Author : Joseph Lanza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Russ Columbo And The Crooner Mystique written by Joseph Lanza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a narrative full of passion, as well as showbiz personalities like Pola Negri and Carole Lombard, Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique combines a remarkable collection of Columbo's letters, diary entries, scrapbook clippings, and other personal effects - all woven with an intimate biography that pleads the case for romantic balladeers."--BOOK JACKET.
The Crooner
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Author : Marvin L. Lindberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-01-01
The Crooner written by Marvin L. Lindberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with categories.
