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The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass - From Jamerson to Spenner (Paperback)
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The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass - From Jamerson to Spenner (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music
during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by
the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s
and throughout the 1970s, a melismatic and inconsistent approach
towards the bass role ensued, which contributed to a major change
in how the electric bass was used in performance and perceived in
the sonic landscape of mainstream popular music. Investigating the
performance practice of the new, melodic role of the electric bass
as it appeared (and disappeared) in the 1960s and 1970s, the book
turns to the number one songs of the American Billboard Hot 100
charts between 1951 and 1982 as a prime source. Through interviews
with players from this era, numerous transcriptions - elaborations
of twenty bass related features - are presented. These are
juxtaposed with a critical study of four key players, who provide
the case-studies for examining the performance practice of the
melodic electric bass. This highly original book will be of
interest not only to bass players, but also to popular
musicologists looking for a way to instigate methodological and
theoretical discussions on how to develop popular music analysis.
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