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Jazz in Its Time (Paperback, New ed): Martin Williams Jazz in Its Time (Paperback, New ed)
Martin Williams
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Martin Williams is one of the most perceptive and entertaining jazz critics writing in America today. This collection of pieces on the past, present, and future of the jazz idiom includes profiles of Sidney Bechet, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis, an assessment of jazz-rock fusion, and a look at the pressures placed on musicians and their music by commercialism.

Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries... Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
Coretta M. Pittman
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative writers, and classic blues singers sometimes utilize singular but other times overlapping forms of literacies to engage in debates on race. The book begins with Anna J. Cooper's philosophy on race literature as one method for social advancement. From there, author Coretta M. Pittman discusses women from the Woman's and New Negro Eras, including but not limited to Angelina Weld Grimke, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Zora Neale Hurston. The volume closes with an exploration of Victoria Spivey's blues philosophy. The women examined in this book employ forms of transformational, transactional, or specular literacy to challenge systems of racial oppression. However, Literacy in a Long Blues Note argues against prevalent myths that a singular vision for racial uplift dominated the public sphere in the latter decade of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Instead, by including Black women from various social classes and ideological positions, Pittman reveals alternative visions. Contrary to more moderate predecessors of the Woman's Era and contemporaries in the New Negro Era, classic blues singers like Mamie Smith advanced new solutions against racism. Early twentieth-century writer Angelina Weld Grimke criticized traditional methods for racial advancement as Jim Crow laws tightened restrictions against Black progress. Ultimately, the volume details the agency and literacy practices of these influential women.

Blues Fell This Morning - Meaning in the Blues (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Paul Oliver Blues Fell This Morning - Meaning in the Blues (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Paul Oliver
R991 R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues. First published in 1960, this remarkable book has not been superseded and its reappearance will be welcomed by all who wish to understand the complexity of meaning in the blues and the experiences which they expressed. The book examines the functions of the blues as black American folk music recorded during the 78 rpm era, from the 1920s to the 1950s. The lyrics are quoted extensively throughout the book, revealing their significance as a means of communication within black society. The author shows how the themes of labour and unemployment, migration and the Depression years, love, sex, and marriage, crime, violence and imprisonment, disasters, sickness, war and death are expressed in black idioms and he discusses their meaning on many levels.

Memphis Man - Living High, Laying Low (Paperback): Don Nix Memphis Man - Living High, Laying Low (Paperback)
Don Nix
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Americana Music - Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound (Hardcover): Lee Zimmerman Americana Music - Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound (Hardcover)
Lee Zimmerman
R961 R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Save R157 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With roots in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, the Piedmont, Memphis, and the prairies of Texas and the American West, the musical genre called Americana can prove difficult to define. Nevertheless, this burgeoning trend in American popular music continues to expand and develop, winning new audiences and engendering fresh, innovative artists at an exponential rate. As Lee Zimmerman illustrates in Americana Music: Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound, "Americana" covers a gamut of sounds and styles. In its strictest sense, it is a blanket term for bluegrass, country, mountain music, rockabilly, and the blues. By a broader definition, it can encompass roots rock, country rock, singer/songwriters, R&B, and their various combinations. Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, and Tom Petty can all lay valid claims as purveyors of Americana, but so can Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, and Jason Isbell. Americana is new and old, classic and contemporary, trendy and traditional. Mining the firsthand insights of those whose stories help shape the sound-people such as Ralph Stanley, John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Chris Hillman (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers), Paul Cotton and Rusty Young (Poco), Shawn Colvin, Kinky Friedman, David Bromberg, the Avett Brothers, Amanda Shires, Ruthie Foster, and many more-Americana Music provides a history of how Americana originated, how it reached a broader audience in the '60s and '70s with the merging of rock and country, and how it evolved its overwhelmingly populist appeal as it entered the new millennium.

Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume Two (Paperback): S J Tyler Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume Two (Paperback)
S J Tyler
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Immersed In Blues - A Musical Journey (Paperback): John Hood Immersed In Blues - A Musical Journey (Paperback)
John Hood
R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries... Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
Coretta M. Pittman
R3,840 R2,651 Discovery Miles 26 510 Save R1,189 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative writers, and classic blues singers sometimes utilize singular but other times overlapping forms of literacies to engage in debates on race. The book begins with Anna J. Cooper's philosophy on race literature as one method for social advancement. From there, author Coretta M. Pittman discusses women from the Woman's and New Negro Eras, including but not limited to Angelina Weld Grimke, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Zora Neale Hurston. The volume closes with an exploration of Victoria Spivey's blues philosophy. The women examined in this book employ forms of transformational, transactional, or specular literacy to challenge systems of racial oppression. However, Literacy in a Long Blues Note argues against prevalent myths that a singular vision for racial uplift dominated the public sphere in the latter decade of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Instead, by including Black women from various social classes and ideological positions, Pittman reveals alternative visions. Contrary to more moderate predecessors of the Woman's Era and contemporaries in the New Negro Era, classic blues singers like Mamie Smith advanced new solutions against racism. Early twentieth-century writer Angelina Weld Grimke criticized traditional methods for racial advancement as Jim Crow laws tightened restrictions against Black progress. Ultimately, the volume details the agency and literacy practices of these influential women.

Modern Blues Guitar Soloing - Master The Art of Modern Blues-Rock Guitar in 100 Killer Licks (Paperback): Josh Smith, Tim... Modern Blues Guitar Soloing - Master The Art of Modern Blues-Rock Guitar in 100 Killer Licks (Paperback)
Josh Smith, Tim Pettingale, Joseph Alexander
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guitar - The Beginners Bible (5 in 1) - The Practical Guide to Music Theory, Chords, Scales, Guitar Exercises and How to... Guitar - The Beginners Bible (5 in 1) - The Practical Guide to Music Theory, Chords, Scales, Guitar Exercises and How to Memorize the Fretboard (Paperback)
Chris Mac
R1,040 R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Save R122 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Was the First Rock and Roll Record (Paperback): Jim Dawson What Was the First Rock and Roll Record (Paperback)
Jim Dawson
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It - A Working Musician's Model For Success (Paperback): Andrew Thomas You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It - A Working Musician's Model For Success (Paperback)
Andrew Thomas
R466 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piano Blues Scales (Paperback): S J Tyler Piano Blues Scales (Paperback)
S J Tyler
R330 R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chasing the Blues - A Memoir (Paperback): Dennis Walker Chasing the Blues - A Memoir (Paperback)
Dennis Walker; Designed by Judy Walker
R1,556 Discovery Miles 15 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Central Avenue Sounds - Jazz in Los Angeles (Paperback, New edition): Clora Bryant, Buddy Collette, William Green, Steve... Central Avenue Sounds - Jazz in Los Angeles (Paperback, New edition)
Clora Bryant, Buddy Collette, William Green, Steve Isoardi, Marl Young
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"From Buddy Collette's brilliant ruminations on Paul Robeson to Horace Tapscott's extraordinary insights about artistic production and community life . . . this collection of oral testimony presents a unique and memorable portrait of the 'Avenue' and of the artists whose creativity nurtured and sustained its golden age."--George Lipsitz, author of "Dangerous Crossroads

"If ever the West Coast enjoyed its own equivalent of the Harlem Renaissance, it was here on Central Avenue. This too-often forgotten setting was nothing less than a center of cultural ferment and a showplace for artistic achievement. Finally its story has been told, with a richness of detail and vitality of expression, by those who helped make it happen."--Ted Gioia, author of "West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California

"What a wonderful, comprehensive volume, full of knowledge and insight about an important time and place in jazz history. This book is a needed and welcomed addition on the rich African-American musical heritage of Los Angeles. It is well written and edited by people who were actually involved in the creation of the music, along with others who have a deep concern for preserving that legacy. This work gives the reader a truly in-depth look at the musicians, the music, and the social and political climate during that important development in American culture."--Kenny Burrell, jazz guitarist and Director of the Jazz Studies Program and Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles

The Story of Jazz (Paperback, Revised): Marshall W. Stearns The Story of Jazz (Paperback, Revised)
Marshall W. Stearns
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz's cultural effects on American and the world.

Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume Three (Paperback): S J Tyler Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume Three (Paperback)
S J Tyler
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume One (Paperback): S J Tyler Improvising Boogie-Woogie Volume One (Paperback)
S J Tyler
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Slim Harpo - Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge (Paperback): Martin Hawkins, John Broven Slim Harpo - Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge (Paperback)
Martin Hawkins, John Broven
R997 R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing near Louisiana's capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success with R&B hits like Rainin' in My Heart, Baby Scratch My Back, and I'm A King Bee, among others. Hawkins follows Harpo's global musical impact from the early 1960s to today and offers a detailed look at the nature of the independent recording business that enabled his remarkable legacy. With new research and interviews, Hawkins fills in previous biographical gaps and redresses misinformation about Harpo's life. In addition to weaving the musician's career into the lives of other Louisiana blues players-including Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester, and Silas Hogan-the author discusses the pioneering role of Crowley, Louisiana, record producer J. D. Miller and illustrates how Excello Records in Nashville brought national attention to Harpo's music recorded in Louisiana. This engaging narrative examines Harpo's various recording sessions and provides a detailed discography, as well as a list of blues-related records by fellow Baton Rouge artists. Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge will stand as the ultimate resource on the musician's life and the rich history of Baton Rouge's blues heritage.

The Jazz Tradition (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Martin Williams The Jazz Tradition (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Martin Williams
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

`The best one-volume history of jazz.' That is how the American Music Guide described the book that Louis Armstrong once said `held ol' Satch spellbound'. A unique blend of history and criticism, this lively and perceptive book includes chapters on such jazz giants as King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. In addition to an expanded essay on Count Basie, this revised edition also includes pieces on Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

A Meeting At The Crossroads - Robert Johnson and The Devil (Paperback): Matt Frederick A Meeting At The Crossroads - Robert Johnson and The Devil (Paperback)
Matt Frederick
R550 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anyways Here's The Blues (Paperback): Jeremie King Anyways Here's The Blues (Paperback)
Jeremie King
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fairy Princess Colouring Book - Gorgeous Fairy Colouring Books for Girls (Paperback): Nick Marshall Fairy Princess Colouring Book - Gorgeous Fairy Colouring Books for Girls (Paperback)
Nick Marshall
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis (Paperback): Thomas P Athridge The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis (Paperback)
Thomas P Athridge
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Blues - Bb version - Bb Version (Paperback): Eduardo Introcaso The Book of Blues - Bb version - Bb Version (Paperback)
Eduardo Introcaso
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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