A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books
A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books

Author: Gary Haggerty

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1995-09-30

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0313387710

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A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.

Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap
Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap

Author: Eddie S. Meadows

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 916

ISBN-13: 1136992561

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Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in this research area and will prove an indispensable resource for librarians and scholars studying African American music and culture.

Little Blues Book
Little Blues Book

Author: Brian Robertson

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781565121379

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This little book transcends geographical, social, and economic boundaries to search the heart and soul of the blues, looking for rules to live by, hope for the downtrodden, cautionary tales for the good times, and truths that "hurt so good". Sometimes, you just gotta be blue. But, as this book goes to show, that's okay--because you're never alone.

The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music
The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music

Author: Brock Helander

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 854

ISBN-13: 0857128116

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The Rockin' '60s is a comprehensive guide through the decade that produced the greatest music of all time: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Aretha Frankin and hundreds more emerged from this era. Delve into a narrative history of each group and examine the people behind the music, along with an analysis of key recordings, discography, and archival photos throughout.

Houston Bound
Houston Bound

Author: Tyina L. Steptoe

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0520282582

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Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations—particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles—complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.

A Blues Bibliography
A Blues Bibliography

Author: Robert Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 2397

ISBN-13: 1135865078

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A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.

A Guide to the Blues
A Guide to the Blues

Author: Austin M. Sonnier

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Nicknames by which the musicians are known are cross-referenced; photos of many blues greats, some from the author's personal collection; an extensive filmography, discography, and bibliography; visits to highly musical places where the blues flourished in America; and a study of the influence of voodoo on the blues and, in turn, the influence of the blues on rock and roll.

The Big Book of Blues
The Big Book of Blues

Author: Robert Santelli

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Contains over 650 entries profiling every important blues artist, including in each entry a discussion on the artist's style and musical contributions.