Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers

Author: Kim Field
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671796334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Traces the history of the harmonica, looks at how it has been used in various types of music, including folk, country, blues, rock, and jazz, and includes profiles of leading soloists

Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers

Author: Kim Field
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661021
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The harmonica is one of the most important, yet overlooked, instruments in music. This definitive volume celebrates the history of the world's most popular musical device, its impact on various forms of music, folk, country, blues, rock, jazz and classical music. The author traces the development of the harmonica from the ancient Chinese sheng to futuristic harmonica sythesizers. Nearly seventy harmonica masters are profiled including Stevie Wonder, Little Walter, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Reed, Charlie McCoy, Sonny Terry, and John Popper. This updated edition includes an extensive new afterword, an expanded discography of the finest harmonica recordings, and a listing of the best harmonica resources on the internet.

Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers

Author: Kim Field
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815410204
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 388

The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica

Author: PETER KRAMPERT
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619115778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
The Harmonica Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive book ever written on the instrument, offering over 900 articles on players, bands, techniques, resources and a discography of over 5,000 recordings by harmonica players. Originallyreleased in 1998, this new edition is profusely illustrated with over 150 photographs of the players who have made the harmonica the world's most popular musical instrument. This book has been critically acclaimed by readers in over 25 countries and is a must-have for any serious harmonica enthusiast

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

Author: Billy Boy Arnold
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022680920X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
"Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--

A Blues Bibliography

Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Bromley, England : Paul Pelletier
ISBN:
Category : Blues (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 808

Book Description
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.

Cumulative Book Index

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2264

Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.

Bibliographic Guide to Music

Author: New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 814

Book Description

Moanin' at Midnight

Author: James Segrest
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
"Howlin' Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires." "Born Chester Burnett in 1910, the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hardscrabble youth as a sharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing with the first Delta blues stars for two decades in perilous juke joints. He was present at the birth of rock 'n' roll in Memphis, where Sam Phillips - who also discovered Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis - called Wolf his "greatest discovery." He helped develop the sound of electric blues and vied with rival Muddy Waters for the title of king of Chicago blues. He ended his career performing and recording with the world's most famous rock stars. His passion for music kept him performing - despite devastating physical problems - right up to his death in 1976." "There's never been a comprehensive biography of the Wolf until now. Moanin' at Midnight is full of information about his mysterious early years, and entertaining stories about his decades at the top, and never-before-seen photographs. It strips away all the myths to reveal - at long last - the real-life triumphs and tragedies of this blues titan."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Performance and Production

Author: John Shepherd
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN: 9780826463227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720

Book Description
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.