Doowop
Doowop

Author: Robert Pruter

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780252065064

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The Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for "vividly describ ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner." Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in cooking up Doowop, which chronicles the careers of such legendary 1950s groups as the Flamingos, the Moonglows, the Spaniels, and the El Dorados, along with virtually every other Chicago doowop group that contributed to that era.

Chicago Folk
Chicago Folk

Author: Raeburn Flerlage

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Including over 200 of Flerlage's photographs of folk musicians during the 1960s, Chicago Folk presents a stunning portrait of a vibrant urban folk milieu. Featuring popular performers such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, as well as old and new traditional musicians like the New Lost City Ramblers and other blues, bluegrass, old-time, Cajun and gospel performers who appeared in Chicago, these images capture the broad scope of folk musicians who were part and parcel of the 1960s folk music revival in Chicago and elsewhere.

Scenescapes
Scenescapes

Author: Daniel Aaron Silver

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 022635699X

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Setting the scene -- A theory of scenes -- Quantitative flânerie -- Back to the land, on to the scene : how scenes drive economic development -- Home, home on the scene : how scenes shape residential patterns -- Scene power : how scenes influence voting, energize new social movements, and generate political resources / with Christopher M. Graziul) -- Making a scene : how to integrate the scenescape into public policy thinking -- The science of scenes / with Christopher M. Graziul)

The Chicago Music Scene
The Chicago Music Scene

Author: Dean Milano

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738577296

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This is the story of two decades of the Chicago music scene-the 1960s and 1970s, an incredibly vibrant period in urban and suburban music scenes across the country and throughout the world. Chicago was a major player throughout those decades. It was a time when jazz, rock and roll, country and western, folk, blues, and R & B flowed through the streets of Chicagoland. Much has been written about the national and international talent of that time, but not enough has been written regarding local music scenes. This story focuses on the city of Chicago (along with its suburban club scene) and the homegrown performers who made the 1960s and 1970s one of the most electrifying and memorable periods in music history. Some of those players went all the way to the big time, while others made their mark and disappeared. But they all made a difference in their own way, and for those who were there, it is a time they will never forget.

Return to the Scene of the Crime
Return to the Scene of the Crime

Author: Richard Lindberg

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781581820133

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A region-by-region tour of Chicago that describes significant crimes that took place in each area and chronicles the changes--such as laws, real estate development, and industrialization--that have influenced crime in the city.

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

Author: Michelle E. Moore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 135001804X

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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America's great modernist writers and the nation's “second city.” Michelle E. Moore explores the ways in which the defining writers of the era-Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald-engaged with the city and reacted against the commercial styles of "Chicago realism" to pursue their own, European-influenced mode of modernist art. Drawing on local archives to illuminate the literary culture of early 20th-century Chicago, this book reveals an important new dimension to the rise of American modernism.

The Scene of Harlem Cabaret
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret

Author: Shane Vogel

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0226862526

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Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.

Scenes from Deep Time
Scenes from Deep Time

Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1995-11-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 022614903X

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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

The Beat, the Scene, the Sound
The Beat, the Scene, the Sound

Author: DJ Disciple

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 153817488X

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This book follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes story of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation. Interweaving interviews, the book dives into glitzy clubs, underground parties, and diverse communities who made up the scene amidst the tumult of 1980s/90s-era NYC.