They All Played Ragtime The True Story Of An American Music

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Oak Publications.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime written by Rudi Blesh and published by Oak Publications.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They All Played Ragtime is a lively and fascinating book about a lively and fascinating American music that flowered with the dawn of this century, faded with World War I, and today is staging an unprecedented nationwide revival. Here - in an updated, expanded new edition - is the whole true story of ragtime, from its Gay 90's origins in the bordellos of Sedalia and St. Louis, to its sweeping successes in American and Europe. Here are the lives of the colorful men who created the intoxicating ragtime syncopations - authentic, homespun geniuses like Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joe Lamb, and many more - once forgotten but now being affectionately and respectfully remembered. For general readers there are nostalgia and romance in these pages. For serious students there are exhaustive lists of composers, compositions, piano rolls, and sound recordings. For performers there are the complete piano scores of 16 rags, from yesterday to today, most of them previously unpublished and available only here. The only history of ragime, They all Played Ragtime is required reading for all who love America and its native music." -- Back cover.

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime written by Rudi Blesh and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : New York : Grove Press ; Toronto : Distributed in Canada by McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime written by Rudi Blesh and published by New York : Grove Press ; Toronto : Distributed in Canada by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1959 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Nelson Press
ISBN 13 : 1443731528
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music written by Rudi Blesh and published by Nelson Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144654690X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music written by Rudi Blesh and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. He sparked renewed interest in the music of Joseph Lamb, James P. Johnson, and Eubie Blake, among others.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136519726
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Contributions consider the rise and triumph of popular forms such as jazz, swing, and blues, as well as the contributions to art music of composers such as Ives, Cage, and Copland, among others. American contributions to music technology and dissemination, and the role of these forms in extending the audience for music, is also a focus.

Author : Alec Wilder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093994X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Song written by Alec Wilder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313389748
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Pulse written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of fields and perspectives relate topics concerning twentieth-century popular music to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the popular tunes, rhythms, and lyrics.

Author : Eric Weisbard
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802139X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songbooks written by Eric Weisbard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.

Author : Ronda Racha Penrice
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119780861
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black American History For Dummies written by Ronda Racha Penrice and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black America. From slavery and the Civil Rights movement to Black Wall Street, Juneteenth, redlining, and Black Lives Matter, this book offers an accessible resource for understanding the facts and events critical to Black history in America. The history of Black Americans is the history of Americans; Americans dance to Black music, read Black literature, watch Black movies, and whether they know it or not reap the benefits of the vibrant political, athletic, and sociological contributions of Black Americans. With this book, you can dive into history, culture, and beyond. See how far there’s yet to go in the approach to studying Black American culture and ending racism. Get the authoritative story on the growth and evolution of Black America from slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era through to today Discover the Black artists, musicians, athletes, and leaders who have made the United States what it is Develop a fuller understanding of concerns about police brutality and other front-and-center race issues Find out how every aspect of American life connects to Black history Black American History For Dummies is for anyone who needs to learn or re-learn the true history about Black Americans.