Roadkill on the Three-chord Highway
Title | Roadkill on the Three-chord Highway PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Escott |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Popular music |
ISBN | 9780415937825 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Looking Back to See
Title | Looking Back to See PDF eBook |
Author | Maxine Brown |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2009-12-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1557289344 |
Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s
Perry Como
Title | Perry Como PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Macfarlane |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2015-05-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476600244 |
Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como was the first popular singer to cross over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como's career illuminates developments in the music and television business in the middle of the last century. This biography features 73 photographs, a complete discography, a listing of all television appearances, and a year by year chronology of Perry Como's life from 1912 to 2001.
We Wanna Boogie
Title | We Wanna Boogie PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Schwartz |
Publisher | Butler Center Books |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1935106724 |
Rock and roll pioneer and Newport native Sonny Burgess is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In this book full of personal interviews and remembrances, Burgess and his band tell of their original recordings for Sun Records in the 1950s; their shows with greats such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis; and their success in the contemporary rockabilly revival. This also is the history of a once prominent and spirited Delta community of extensive agricultural wealth. Newport was home to numerous music clubs that hosted national artists as well as illicit backroom gambling. Burgess is a product of this history, and his vivacious music is shaped by his hometown and the dramatic transformation of southern rural life it witnessed.
Finding Fogerty
Title | Finding Fogerty PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Kitts |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0739174851 |
Essays on the 50-year career of American songwriter and composer, John Fogarty, which argue for hus musical and cultural significance.
Country Music
Title | Country Music PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Carlin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2014-02-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135361045 |
This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide an understanding of the artist's importance or failings, and a feeling for his or her style. Select discographies are provided at the end of each entry, while a bibliography and indexes by instrument, musical style, genre, and song title round out the work. For a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary website.
I Saw the Light
Title | I Saw the Light PDF eBook |
Author | William MacEwen |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316315060 |
The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya" sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.