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The First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940
ISBN: 9780786430215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book focuses on 50 of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the folk music of early America through the 1970s. Divided into five distinct categories, it discusses the pioneers who brought mountain music to mass audiences; cowboys and radio stars who spread country music countrywide; honky-tonk and bluegrass musicians who differentiated country music during the 1940s; the major contributions that female artists made to the genre; and the modern country sound which dominated the genre from the late 1950s to the mid?1980s. Each entry...
This book focuses on 50 of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the folk music of early America thr...
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190,77 zł |
Blues Singers
ISBN: 9780786406067 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This reference volume is intended for both the casual as well as the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music.
This reference volume is intended for both the casual as well as the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and c...
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252,37 zł |
The New Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born After 1940
ISBN: 9780786437870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book features biographies of 50 country music artists who have kept the tradition of the genre alive in a contemporary setting. Chapters cover the new traditionalists, alternative country, country-pop, and new country.
This book features biographies of 50 country music artists who have kept the tradition of the genre alive in a contemporary setting. Chapters cover th...
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252,37 zł |
The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970: Biographies of Fifty Performers and Other Influential People
ISBN: 9780786463527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the second in a series of books focusing upon the history of folk music. This volume concentrates on the period that continues to fuel popular music to the present. It was an exciting time, one that changed the complexity of folk music. Included are biographies and discographies of such noted personalities as Harry Belafonte, Buffy St. Marie, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul and Mary. With information on influential artists from other countries (the Clancy Brothers, Miriam Makeba and others), people "behind the scenes" and major political figures,...
This is the second in a series of books focusing upon the history of folk music. This volume concentrates on the period that continues to fuel popular...
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252,37 zł |
Jazz Musicians of the Early Years, to 1945
ISBN: 9780786415830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of the first roughly half-century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Bille Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all made tremendous contributions, influencing countless jazz musicians and singers. many others who made jazz so popular in the first half of the 20th century. Biographies cover the pioneers of jazz in New Orleans in the late 1890s and 1900s; the soloists who fueled the Jazz Age in the 1920s; the musicians and bandleaders of the big band and...
The story of the first roughly half-century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Lou...
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252,37 zł |
The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition
ISBN: 9780786444311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change. Profiles of Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and others show how the stage was set for the American folk revival of the 1960s. Author Biography: David Dicaire is the author of numerous works about music history. He lives in Leamington, Ontario, Canada.
This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk...
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252,37 zł |
Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present
ISBN: 9780786420971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo ceremonies, and brass bands that played at funerals, parades and celebrations--the sound reflected the tenor of the times, from the citified strains of the Roaring '20s to the Big Band swing of pre-World War II to the bop revolution that grew out of the minimalist sound the war forced upon the art form. That the music continued to develop and evolve is a tribute to the power and creativity of its musicians. Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sarah...
From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo c...
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252,37 zł |