The Great British Dance Bands And Their Vocalists
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The Great British Dance Bands And Their Vocalists
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
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This England S Second Book Of British Dance Bands
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
This England S Second Book Of British Dance Bands written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bands (Music) categories.
The Dance Bands
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Author : Brian Rust
language : en
Publisher: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
Release Date : 1974
The Dance Bands written by Brian Rust and has been published by New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Big bands categories.
The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands
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Author : Leo Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands written by Leo Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Big bands categories.
Victory Through Harmony
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Author : Christina L. Baade
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-01
Victory Through Harmony written by Christina L. Baade and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-01 with Music categories.
To serve the British nation in World War II, the BBC charged itself with mobilizing popular music in support of Britain's war effort. Radio music, British broadcasters and administrators argued, could maintain civilian and military morale, increase industrial production, and even promote a sense of Anglo-American cooperation. Because of their widespread popularity, dance music and popular song were seen as ideal for these tasks; along with jazz, with its American associations and small but youthful audience, these genres suddenly gained new legitimacy at the traditionally more conservative BBC. In Victory through Harmony, author Christina Baade both tells the fascinating story of the BBC's musical participation in wartime events and explores how popular music and jazz broadcasting helped redefine notions of war, gender, race, class, and nationality in wartime Britain. Baade looks in particular at the BBC's pioneering Listener Research Department, which tracked the tastes of select demographic groups including servicemen stationed overseas and young female factory workers in order to further the goal of entertaining, cheering, and even calming the public during wartime. The book also tells how the wartime BBC programmed popular music to an unprecedented degree with the goal of building national unity and morale, promoting new roles for women, virile representations of masculinity, Anglo-American friendship, and pride in a common British culture. In the process, though, the BBC came into uneasy contact with threats of Americanization, sentimentality, and the creativity of non-white "others," which prompted it to regulate and even censor popular music and performers. Rather than provide the soundtrack for a unified "People's War," Baade argues, the BBC's broadcasting efforts exposed the divergent ideologies, tastes, and perspectives of the nation. This illuminating book will interest all readers in popular music, jazz, and radio, as well as British cultural history and gender studies.
The World Of Big Bands
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Author : Arthur Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The World Of Big Bands written by Arthur Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Music categories.
"The World of the Big Bands presents for the first time the complete story of the big bands which have played such an important part in the evolution of modern music. Famous bands with their individual styles: swing, jazz, dance music, Hawaiian and comedy; and their soloists, arrangers and singers are nostalgically recalled with authority and from the author's personal experience of the era." --
A Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz And Pop Singers
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Author : Will Friedwald
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2010-11-02
A Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz And Pop Singers written by Will Friedwald and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with Music categories.
Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung. The music crosses from jazz to pop and back again, from the songs of Irving Berlin and W. C. Handy through Stephen Sondheim and beyond, bringing together straightforward jazz and pop singers (Billie Holiday, Perry Como); hybrid artists who moved among genres and combined them (Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé); the leading men and women of Broadway and Hollywood (Ethel Merman, Al Jolson); yesterday’s vaudeville and radio stars (Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor); and today’s cabaret artists and hit-makers (Diana Krall, Michael Bublé). Friedwald has also written extended pieces on the most representative artists of five significant genres that lie outside the songbook: Bessie Smith (blues), Mahalia Jackson (gospel), Hank Williams (country and western), Elvis Presley (rock ’n’ roll), and Bob Dylan (folk-rock). Friedwald reconsiders the personal stories and professional successes and failures of all these artists, their songs, and their performances, appraising both the singers and their music by balancing his opinions with those of fellow musicians, listeners, and critics. This magisterial reference book—ten years in the making—will delight and inform anyone with a passion for the iconic music of America, which continues to resonate throughout our popular culture.
This England S Book Of British Dance Bands From The Twenties To The Fifties
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Author : Percy Bickerdyke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
This England S Book Of British Dance Bands From The Twenties To The Fifties written by Percy Bickerdyke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Bands (Music) categories.
Song Means Analysing And Interpreting Recorded Popular Song
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Author : Allan F. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Song Means Analysing And Interpreting Recorded Popular Song written by Allan F. Moore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Music categories.
The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details of popular music theory. However, this focus on the what of musical detail has left largely untouched the larger question - so what? What are the consequences of such theorization and analysis? Scholars from outside musicology have often argued that too close a focus on musicological detail has left untouched what they consider to be more urgent questions related to reception and meaning. Scholars from inside musicology have responded by importing into musicological discussion various aspects of cultural theory. It is in that tradition that this book lies, although its focus is slightly different. What is missing from the field, at present, is a coherent development of the what into the so what of music theory and analysis into questions of interpretation and hermeneutics. It is that fundamental gap that this book seeks to fill. Allan F. Moore presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s through to the present day. Analysis and interpretation are treated as separable but interdependent approaches to song. Analytical theory is revisited, covering conventional domains such as harmony, melody and rhythm, but does not privilege these at the expense of domains such as texture, the soundbox, vocal tone, and lyrics. These latter areas are highly significant in the experience of many listeners, but are frequently ignored or poorly treated in analytical work. Moore continues by developing a range of hermeneutic strategies largely drawn from outside the field (strategies originating, in the most part, within psychology and philosophy) but still deeply r
Talking Swing
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Author : Sheila Tracy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-04-22
Talking Swing written by Sheila Tracy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-22 with Music categories.
From Palace to Palais, the musicians who played in the big bands tell their own stories, bringing to life an unforgettable era. Pre-war reminiscences give an insight into a never-to-be-forgotten era, when London's nightclubs were the haunts of the aristocracy and of royalty, and the Prince of Wales would jump at any opportunity to play drums with the resident band. The elegant world of top hat, white ties and tails has gone for ever, but in Talking Swing the musicians relive those nights when they played for as long as the customers wanted to dance - often into the early hours of the morning. Out of London, there were the variety tours, where the band was top of the bill and there wasn't an empty seat in the house. The problems faced by British musicians during the war years, when London's society bands continued to play throughout the Blitz, were enormous, and they are vividly portrayed in Talking Swing. Amongst those recalled are Ambrose, Jack Hylton, Geraldo, Ted Heath and Syd Lawrence, who took over when almost everyone else had packed it in and who kept on swinging against all odds. This was the golden age of the big bands, and the story of those days is told by the men and women who made the music.