[PDF] Jazz And Ragtime Records 1897 1942 Song Title Index eBook

Author : Brian Rust
Publisher : Denver, Colo. : Mainspring Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Reinforced cloth library binding, no dust jacket, individual shrinkwrap

Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 022606767X

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Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.

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Publisher : McFarland
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786472383

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This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.

Author : Robert Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1401 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135865086

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This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.