After the Ball composed in 1892 is just the beginning. . .of this
very personable, cheeky and charming history of pop music by an
ex-student of history at Trinity College, Dublin, ex-teenage
hearthrob famous (very briefly) for his rendering of the
less-than-immortal You Turn Me On ("Come On Now Honey - You Know
You Really Turn Me On! And When, When You Do - Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!
Huh! Huh! - That's My Song!"). Alas, Whitcomb never made it as the
second Mick Jagger but this book which is about the pop industry
and "the taming process" does make it. Whitcomb's thesis is simple:
the music trade can take on all comers - "all the mad men raging
from the bush, screaming the blues, rocking to rag - and castrate
them." To validate his case he put in a lot of hours searching out
old ragtime composers, DJs, Artists & Repertoire, rock stars
and crooners on both sides of the Atlantic and let them talk about
manufacturing THE SOUND, much of which originally came unsanitized
from the tenderloin districts of American cities. From the
production of Yes, We Have No Bananas, which Whitcomb calls "the
archetypal patchwork, industrial folk song," to the perfumed '30's,
to Sinatra and Sincerity to R & B which came from "the armpits
and orifices" of America, Whitcomb stays on a nice, raunchy upbeat.
Last heard from he was working as an A & R man for Mae West.
This boy may go far. (Kirkus Reviews)
(Limelight). An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music
dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the
present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash,
learned, funny, and perspicacious." The New Yorker
General
| Imprint: |
Limelight Editions
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Limelight |
| Release date: |
May 1986 |
| First published: |
July 2004 |
| Authors: |
Ian Whitcomb
|
| Dimensions: |
215 x 142 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
330 |
| Edition: |
Reprint |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-87910-063-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Music >
General
Books >
Music >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-87910-063-X |
| Barcode: |
9780879100636 |
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