Amalia Rodriguess Amalia At The Olympia

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501346229
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia written by Lila Ellen Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1956. This album, which was issued for multiple national markets (including: France; USA; Japan; Britain; the Netherlands) catapulted Amália Rodrigues into the international limelight. During its time, this album held the potential for international listeners, outside of Portugal, to represent Portugal, while also standing in for cosmopolitanism, the glamorous city of Paris, and to present a sonorous voyage in sound. This book introduces readers to the voice of Amália Rodrigues and to the genre of the Portuguese fado, offering a primer in how to listen to both. It unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. It situates this album within a historical context marked by cold war Atlanticist diplomacy, Portugal's dictatorial regime, and the emergence of new forms of media, travel, and tourism.In so doing, it examines processes that shaped the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and the making of female vocal stardom in the mid-20th century.

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
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ISBN 13 : 9781501346231
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amália at the Olympia written by Lila Ellen Gray and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines Amália Rodrigues's seminal international hit album, recorded live at the Paris Olympia in 1956"--

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501346210
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia written by Lila Ellen Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1956. This album, which was issued for multiple national markets (including: France; USA; Japan; Britain; the Netherlands) catapulted Amália Rodrigues into the international limelight. During its time, this album held the potential for international listeners, outside of Portugal, to represent Portugal, while also standing in for cosmopolitanism, the glamorous city of Paris, and to present a sonorous voyage in sound. This book introduces readers to the voice of Amália Rodrigues and to the genre of the Portuguese fado, offering a primer in how to listen to both. It unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. It situates this album within a historical context marked by cold war Atlanticist diplomacy, Portugal's dictatorial regime, and the emergence of new forms of media, travel, and tourism.In so doing, it examines processes that shaped the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and the making of female vocal stardom in the mid-20th century.

Author : Amália Rodrigues
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Amália No Olympia No2 "Excerpto". written by Amália Rodrigues and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mariusz Gradowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501372696
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic written by Mariusz Gradowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has the popularity and meanings changed over time? It does this by unpacking its production, which was unprecedented in the history of the Polish popular music due to its large number of musicians with varied backgrounds, including progressive rock, mixing jazz, rock and soul with classical music. It also examines its appeal to different segments of Polish population, and failure to reach foreign audiences, despite Niemen himself privileging this album, especially its centrepiece, Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod (Mournful Rhapsody in Memoriam of Bem aka A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem aka Mourner's Rhapsody), in his attempt to make a career abroad.

Author : Ben Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501393316
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screamfeeder's Kitten Licks written by Ben Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1996, Kitten Licks catapulted Brisbane indie-rock three-piece Screamfeeder into the '90s alternative-rock boom alongside Powderfinger, silverchair, You Am I and Regurgitator. International tours, regular festival shows, and TV appearances followed. And yet, commercial success for Screamfeeder was comparatively short-lived. By the end of the decade, the band's outlook was bleak: at a career standstill and unable to record new music. Today, both Screamfeeder and Kitten Licks endure as fiercely loved cult icons. In its vitality and idiosyncrasy, Kitten Licks captures a moment of cresting change for a band, a city and a national scene, while continuing to delight and inspire those who discover it anew. This book tells the story of Kitten Licks in the words of those who lived it, and who still do. How it was made, how it was swept up into '90s mythology and what the journey tells us about the fickle nature of music production in Australia, namely: how to survive it.

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150138208X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Farnham's Whispering Jack written by Graeme Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

Author : Adrian Renzo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501382993
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kylie Minogue's Kylie written by Adrian Renzo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its back up. This book interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular music press and in academic research. Is there a way of dealing with 'mainstream' pop without denigrating the music and (just as importantly) without validating it according to the terms of a 'high art' canon? This text sheds light on the way that notions of 'mainstream' and 'other' play out in a local context-specifically, Australia and New Zealand music on a global stage.

Author : Charles A. Perrone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150137981X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque written by Charles A. Perrone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist's most representative. This vibrant collection displays the singer-songwriter's singular talents as a composer/poet of songs with both popular appeal and keen analytical skills. The 11 tracks include both up-beat sambas and lyrical compositions: witty tunes, dramatic laments, international items, and, especially, epochal protest songs with fascinating histories. The album embodies Chico Buarque's affective sensibilities and sociopolitical engagement, and this book situates the album in inter-related contexts: the artist's own career; the evolution of the current he represents MPB (Brazilian Popular Music); and, especially, historical conjuncture-the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-85.

Author : Lasse Lehtonen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501378147
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yuming's The 14th Moon written by Lasse Lehtonen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not an exaggeration that Matsutoya Yumi-better known by her stage name Yuming-is one of the most influential figures in Japanese popular music history. A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao's beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of listeners of different generations since her debut in the early 1970s. Her fourth album, The 14th Moon, released in 1976, was a milestone in establishing her signature style: the posh, “city” sound that later paved the way to the 1980s City Pop and 1990s J-pop. In addition to examining the album's astonishing stylistic versatility, this book explores how Yuming revolutionized the position of women in Japanese popular music and how her work can help us understand social changes in Japan of the 1970s.