Rhythm and Blues Goes Calypso Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 March 2019

Between 1945 and 1965 rhythm and blues artists made dozens of recordings incorporating West Indian calypso. This book draws musical and cultural connections that make the case for recognizing the significance of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 06 May 2024

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 11 May 2017

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington's celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2014

In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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• Release Date : 08 April 2015

Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won’t believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• File Size : 28,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2014

A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 24 July 2017

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this

• Publisher : Random House
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• Release Date : 27 August 2015

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 22,5 Mb
• Release Date : 28 March 2007

Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2007

The perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre, The Rough Guide to Film Musicals reveals how an escapist entertainment became Hollywood's most ingenious art form. From such enduring classics as