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Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Percussion instruments
"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said
that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous
visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release,
anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold War felt palpable. As
President Eisenhower cast his gaze towards Russia, the American
people cast their ears to the Atlantic south, infatuated with the
international currents of Caribbean music. Today, steelbands have
become a global phenomenon; yet, in 1957 the exotic sound and the
unique image of the US Navy Steel Band was one-of-a-kind. Could
calypso doom rock `n' roll? Band founder Admiral Daniel V. Gallery
thought so and envisioned his steelband knocking "rock 'n' roll and
Elvis Presley into the ash can." From 1957 until their disbandment
in 1999, the US Navy Steel Band performed over 20,000 concerts
worldwide. In 1973, the band officially moved headquarters from
Puerto Rico to New Orleans and found the city and annual Mardi Gras
tradition an aptmusical and cultural fit. The band brought a
significant piece of Caribbean artistic capital-calypso and
steelband music-to the American mainstream. Its impact on the
growth and development of steelpan music in America is enormous.
Steelpan Ambassadors uncovers the lost history of the US Navy Steel
Band and provides an in-depth study of its role in the development
of the US military's public relations, its promotion of goodwill,
its recruitment efforts after the Korean and VietnamWars, its
musical and technological innovations, and its percussive
propulsion of the American fascination with Latin and Caribbean
music over the past century.
(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help
you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the
notation, listen to the CD to hear how the harmonica should sound,
and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody
and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing,
or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any
CD player, and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the
recording to any tempo without changing pitch Volume 13 includes
eight essential tunes from this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: Can't
Hold Out Much Longer * Crazy Legs * I Got to Go * Last Night * Mean
Old World * Rocker * Sad Hours * You're So Fine.
Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat traces the
history of drums and drumming in the Crescent City, exploring more
than three centuries of the instrument and the art form that
transformed New Orleans into the musical powerhouse it is today.
Created as a companion to the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibit of
the same name, Drumsville! examines the drummer's role in the
evolution of brass bands, Black masking Indians, traditional and
modern jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and funk.
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