The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records
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The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records
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Author : Scott Blackwood
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2023-03
The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records written by Scott Blackwood and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03 with Music categories.
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking the resources and the interest to compete for top talent, Paramount’s earliest recordings gained little foothold with the listening public. On the threshold of bankruptcy, the label embarked on a new business plan: selling the music of Black artists to Black audiences. It was a wildly successful move, with Paramount eventually garnering many of the biggest-selling titles in the “race records” era. Inadvertently, the label accomplished what others could not, making blues, jazz, and folk music performed by Black artists a popular and profitable genre. Paramount featured a deep roster of legendary performers, including Louis Armstrong, Charley Patton, Ethel Waters, Son House, Fletcher Henderson, Skip James, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, King Oliver, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Johnny Dodds, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. Scott Blackwood’s The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records is the story of happenstance. But it is also a tale about the sheer force of the Great Migration and the legacy of the music etched into the shellacked grooves of a 78 rpm record. With Paramount Records, Black America found its voice. Through creative nonfiction, Blackwood brings to life the gifted artists and record producers who used Paramount to revolutionize American music. Felled by the Great Depression, the label stopped recording in 1932, leaving a legacy of sound pressed into cheap 78s that is among the most treasured and influential in American history.
Paramount S Rise And Fall
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Author : Alex van der Tuuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Paramount S Rise And Fall written by Alex van der Tuuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Sound recording industry categories.
Paramount S Rise And Fall
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Author : Alex van der Tuuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Paramount S Rise And Fall written by Alex van der Tuuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
The first complete examamination of Paramount Records - the label that introduced Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Skip James, and other blues greats to the world - and the company that produced it.
Paramount S Rise And Fall
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Author : Alex van der Tuuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Paramount S Rise And Fall written by Alex van der Tuuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The New Paramount Book Of Blues
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Author : Alex van der Tuuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The New Paramount Book Of Blues written by Alex van der Tuuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Blues musicians categories.
Fifty-eight biographies of Paramount blues artists with sensational new information based on years of research: Lovie Austin, Charles Avery, Viola Bartlette, Ed Bell, Eloise Bennett, Arthur "Blind" Blake, Lucille Bogan, Ardell Bragg, Henry Brown, Willie Brown, Hattie Burleson, Bob Call, Ben Covington, Ben Curry, Teddy Darby, Emmett Dickenson, Aletha Dickerson, Mattie Dorsey, Sally Duffie, Amos Easton, Bernice Edwards, Kid Edwards, Will Ezell, Leroy Roscoe Garnett, Clifford Gibson, Roosevelt Graves, Lee Green, George Hannah, Walter Hawkins, Bertha Henderson, Edna Hicks, Eddie House, James Jackson, Charlie Jackson, Louise Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Moses Mason, Hattie McDaniel, Charles McFadden, Sodarisa Miller, Marshall Owens, Charley Patton, Joe Reynolds, Elzadie Robinson, Isadore Rodgers, J.D. Short, Henry Sims, Danny Small, Bessie Mae Smith, Charlie Spand, Freddie Spruell, Frank Stokes, Joel Taggart, Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley, Willard Thomas, Wesley Wallace, Nolan Welsh, "Jabo" Williams.
Record Cultures
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Author : Kyle Barnett
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Record Cultures written by Kyle Barnett and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with Music categories.
Tracing the cultural, technological, and economic shifts that shaped the transformation of the recording industry
Bodies Of Water In African American Literature Music And Film
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Author : Sharon A. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-04
Bodies Of Water In African American Literature Music And Film written by Sharon A. Lewis and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Music categories.
This is an edited volume of original essays which explore the meaning of bodies of water in creative narratives by African Americans. The contributors explore the representations of still and moving waterbodies across several genres of literature, film, and music. They also deploy socio-historical and environmental theories, in addition to close-reading interpretive strategies, all acknowledging and developing traditional ways of thinking about water in relation to African American experience and culture. The writers gathered here showcase insightful and vigorous research in various art forms, and, together, embody provocative, innovative and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.
Do Not Sell At Any Price
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Author : Amanda Petrusich
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014
Do Not Sell At Any Price written by Amanda Petrusich and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
A celebration of 78 rpm record subculture reveals the growing value of rare records and the determined efforts of their collectors and archivists, exploring the music of blues artists who have been lost to the modern world.
Three Songs Three Singers Three Nations
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Author : Greil Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-07
Three Songs Three Singers Three Nations written by Greil Marcus and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-07 with History categories.
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one. In these seemingly anonymous productions, we discover three different ways of talking about the United States, and three separate nations within its borders.
Liner Notes For The Revolution
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Author : Daphne A. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-23
Liner Notes For The Revolution written by Daphne A. Brooks and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with Social Science categories.
An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer Black feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline Hopkins as America’s first Black female cultural commentator. Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, song collecting, and rock and roll criticism. She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith, as well as fans who became critics, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. In the twenty-first century, pop superstar Janelle Monae’s liner notes are recognized for their innovations, while celebrated singers Cécile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, and Valerie June take their place as cultural historians. With an innovative perspective on the story of Black women in popular music—and who should rightly tell it—Liner Notes for the Revolution pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black women musicians as radical intellectuals.