The story of how four young would-be bohemians met in Greenwich Village, fell in love, and changed the course of American music. The book describes how folk music crossed with rock'n'roll to form a new musical style and how the young beatniks rose to fame.
In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created - in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress - only to ...
This is a biography of Billy Strayhorn, who wrote and arranged many of the most significant music of the Ellington Orchestra between 1940 and 1967. Billy Strayhorn lived his too-short life in the giant shadow cast by Duke Ellington. He rarely shared the limelight with his mentor and leader. His compositions, of which "Take the A Train", "Lush Life ...
Billy Strayhorn was a black, gay man who wrote and arranged much of the music played by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. This biography gives a picture of a vanished culture.
The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present are "written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs live on paper", says Clive Barnes.
Much has been written about the great songwriters of classic pop--Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, and Sondheim, for instance--but what about the singers who made the music so famous? According to Roy Hemming and David Hajdu, "It is the singers who have given classic pop its life--a life that goes beyond the notes and words on the sheet music. The singer ...
This is a collection of essays on pop culture by the best-selling author of "The Ten-Cent Plague", acclaimed critic David Hajdu, centering on an original-to-this-volume 10,000-word essay on the transformation of American film through the rise of the comic book movie. "Heroes and Villains: Essays on Movies, Music, Comics, and Culture" is a ...
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