Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé

ISBN-13: 9780197570531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 704 str.

Steve Waksman

Recenzje

This history recognizes the significant roles of those who work behind the scenes choosing performance venues, promoting concerts, designing stage and sound elements, and otherwise supporting live performances.

O autorze

Steve Waksman is Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music at Smith College, Massachusetts. His publications include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (1999), and This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (2009), the latter of which was awarded the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for best scholarly book on popular music by the U.S. chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US). With Reebee Garofalo, he is the co-author of the sixth edition of the rock history textbook, Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (2014), and with Andy Bennett, he co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Popular Music (2015). His essays have appeared in such collections as the Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, Metal Rules the Globe, and The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre and Popular Music. On WRSI radio, The River in Western Massachusetts, he can be heard as the "Doctor of Rock," offering bits of popular music history in support of Black History Month and Women's History Month.