The Melody Man
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The Melody Man
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Author : Bruce Bastin
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-08-01
The Melody Man written by Bruce Bastin and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Music categories.
Joe Davis (1896–1978), the focus of The Melody Man, enjoyed a fifty-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s; copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee; oversaw hundreds of recording sessions; and operated several record companies beginning in the 1940s. Davis also worked fearlessly to help ensure that black recording artists and song writers gained equal treatment for their work. Much more than a biography, this book is an investigation of the role played by music publishers during much of the twentieth century. Joe Davis was not a music “great,” but he was one of those individuals who enabled “greats” to emerge. A musician, manager, and publisher, his long career reveals much about the nature of the music industry and offers insight into how the industry changed from the 1920s to the 1970s. By the summer of 1924, when Davis was handling the “race talent” for Ajax records, he had already worked in the music business for most of a decade, and there were more than five decades of musical career ahead of him. The fact that his fascinating life has gone so long underappreciated is remedied by the publication of this book. Originally published in England in 1990 as Never Sell a Copyright: Joe Davis and His Role in the New York Music Scene, 1916–1978, this book was never released in the United States and only made available in a very limited print run in England. The author, noted blues scholar and folklorist Bruce Bastin, has worked with fellow music scholar Kip Lornell to completely update, condense, and improve the book for this first-ever American edition.
The Melody Man
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Author : Bruce Bastin
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-06-22
The Melody Man written by Bruce Bastin and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Joe Davis, the focus of The Melody Man enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s, copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee, oversaw hundreds of recording session, and operated several record companies beginning in the 1940s. Davis also worked fearlessly to help insure that black recording artists and song writers gained equal treatment for their work. Much more than a biography, this book is an investigation of the role played by music publishers during much of the twentieth century. Joe Davis was not a music "great" but he was one of those individuals who enabled "greats" to emerge. A musician, manager, and publisher, his long career reveals much about the nature of the music industry and offers insight into how the industry changed from the 1920s to the 1970s. By the summer of 1924, when Davis was handling the "Race talent" for Ajax records, he had already worked in the music business for most of a decade and there was more than five decades of musical career ahead of him. The fact that his fascinating life has gone so long under-appreciated is remedied by the publication of Never Sell A Copyright. Originally published in England, in 1990, Never Sell a Copyright: Joe Davis and His Role in the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 was never released in the United States and available in a very limited print run in England. The author, noted blues scholar and folklorist Bruce Bastin, has worked with fellow music scholar Kip Lornell to completely update, condense, and improve the book for this first-ever American edition.
Hello Mr Melody Man
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Author : Lindley Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Hello Mr Melody Man written by Lindley Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Pianists categories.
Mohammad Rafi
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Author : Kuldeep Sinha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Mohammad Rafi written by Kuldeep Sinha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with categories.
Mohammad Rafi , The play back singer par excellence of Indian cinema for more than three decades, who is believed to have sung more than thirty thousand songs , was not restricted to cinema halls but was a house hold name for every occasion. He could be heard in temples and in mosques, in courtysides and in the gardens, in the festivals of Holi and Diwali or Eid or any social occasions and celebrations. Rafi was a singer of all occasions and seasons. Breaking all the barriers of casts, religions and languages, he was heard in every home..Rafi was equally at ease to sing Ghazals and Bhajans, Sufi and Qawwalis, romantic and valorous, classical and western songs. Like water takes the shape of any pot Rafi was the singer of all styles and genres of actors. His voice merged with the voice of any performer who sang his songs on the screen. There has been no actor in films during his time for whom Rafi did not render his voice. There was no singer male or female with whom Rafi did not sing. There was no film in which Rafi did not give playback.If the seven Notes gave music its 'form' Mohammad Rafi has given it a 'definition'. Rafi was not there to display the nuances of music, antics of the vocal cord or supremacy of his style but to imbibe the sweetness and melody of music in life. That is the reason even after a long time passed of his death his songs are still part of our cultural traditions, our thinking, our dreams and our relationship. Mohammad Rafi was an Era which has no end, it is infinite.Mohammad Rafi died on 31st July 1980 at a very young age of 56 after a sudden and a massive cardiac arrest but he is still alive in the million hearts of music lovers.
The Melody
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Author : Jim Crace
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-02-08
The Melody written by Jim Crace and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Fiction categories.
From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest. Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child, ‘innocent and wild’, and his words fan the flames of old rumour – of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town – and new controversy: the town’s paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges, must be dealt with. Once and for all. Lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, The Melody by Jim Crace tracks the few days that will see Busi and the town he loves altered irrevocably. This is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life. And it is a political novel too – a rallying cry to protect those we persecute. 'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian
Man And His Music
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Man And His Music written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Melody categories.
A Centennial Celebration Of The Brownies Book
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Author : Dianne Johnson-Feelings
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-10-21
A Centennial Celebration Of The Brownies Book written by Dianne Johnson-Feelings and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts The Brownies’ Book occupies a special place in the history of African American children’s literature. Informally the children’s counterpart to the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine, it was one of the first periodicals created primarily for Black youth. Several of the objectives the creators delineated in 1919 when announcing the arrival of the publication—“To make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race” and “To make colored children realize that being ‘colored’ is a beautiful, normal thing”—still resonate with contemporary creators, readers, and scholars of African American children’s literature. The meticulously researched essays in A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies’ Book" get to the heart of The Brownies’ Book “project” using critical approaches both varied and illuminating. Contributors to the volume explore the underappreciated role of Jessie Redmon Fauset in creating The Brownies’ Book and in the cultural life of Black America; describe the young people who immersed themselves in the pages of the periodical; focus on the role of Black heroes and heroines; address The Brownies’ Book in the context of critical literacy theory; and place The Brownies’ Book within the context of Black futurity and justice. Bookending the essays are, reprinted in full, the first and last issues of the magazine. A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies’ Book" illuminates the many ways in which the magazine—simultaneously beautiful, complicated, problematic, and inspiring—remains worthy of attention well into this century.
The Melody
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Author : Jim Crace
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-06-19
The Melody written by Jim Crace and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-19 with Fiction categories.
Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal. Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished to fan the flames of old rumor—of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest. It is also used to spark new controversy, inspiring claims that something must finally be done about the town’s poor, whose numbers have been growing. In trademark crystalline prose, Jim Crace portrays a man taking stock of his life and looking into an uncertain future, while bearing witness to a community in the throes of great change.
Nick Lucas
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Author : Michael R. Pitts
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-03-28
Nick Lucas written by Michael R. Pitts and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-28 with Music categories.
For more than seven decades Nick Lucas was an entertainer, beginning as a child street musician and becoming one of the most popular singer-guitarists of all time. He was a popular sideman in bands, and his solo career conquered radio, recordings, vaudeville, Broadway, films, night clubs and television. He is credited with being the first musician to replace the banjo with the guitar in big bands and on records, and with initiating the "intimate style" of singing, making him the first crooner. Nick Lucas' guitar playing contributed significantly to the instrument's popularity, and he influenced generations of players with his instruction books and by having a line of popular guitar picks bearing his name. He was the first guitarist to have a custom-made model, "The Nick Lucas Special." This biography comprehensively covers Nick Lucas' career as he entertained audiences in the United States, England and Australia, becoming a beloved star and influencing popular music to the present day.
We Ll Have Manhattan
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Author : Dominic Symonds
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-28
We Ll Have Manhattan written by Dominic Symonds 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 2015-01-28 with Music categories.
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart's death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated songs of the '20s and '30s--such as "Manhattan," "The Lady is a Tramp," and "Bewitched"--that remain popular favorites with great cultural resonance today. Yet the early years of these iconic collaborators have remained largely unexamined. We'll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart provides unprecedented insight into the first, formative period of Rodgers and Hart's collaboration. Author Dominic Symonds examines the pair and their work from their first meeting in 1919 to their brief flirtation with Hollywood in the early 1930s as they left the theater to explore sound film. During this time, their output was prodigious, progressive, and experimental. They developed their characteristic style and a new approach to musical theater writing that provided the groundwork for the development of the Broadway musical. Symonds also analyzes the theme of identity that runs throughout Rodgers and Hart's work, how the business side of the theater affected their artistic output, and their continued experimentation with a song's dramatic role within a narrative. We'll Have Manhattan goes beyond a biographical or historical look at Rodgers and Hart's early years--it's also an accessible but authoritative study of their material. Symonds documents their early shows and provides deft critical and analytical commentary on their evolving practice and its influence on the subsequent development of the American musical. Fans of musical theater and devotees of Rodgers and Hart will find this definitive exploration of their early works to be an essential addition to their Broadway library.