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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780252080913
- Book Title
- Beautiful Music All Around Us : Field Recordings and the American Experience
- Book Series
- Music in American Life Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Music, History
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Recording & Reproduction, United States / 20th Century, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / General
- Item Weight
- 38.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 504 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252080912
ISBN-13
9780252080913
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205594992
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beautiful Music All Around Us : Field Recordings and the American Experience
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
History & Criticism, Recording & Reproduction, United States / 20th Century, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, History
Book Series
Music in American Life Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
38.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Offers an understanding not only of a musical thread vital to American culture, but of America itself."-- Publishers Weekly "Astonishing. . . . These stories are compelling, moving and revelatory."-- Chicago Tribune , "As compelling as a good detective story, this investigation of field recordings of a bygone era will be embraced by music fans. This book reminds readers that they don't need pop icons to experience passionate music."-- Library Journal "A unique, personal, thoroughly documented book, a labor of love. . . . valuable for those with an interest in folklore, popular music, southern cultures, and race relations. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, "Extraordinary. . . . A masterpiece of humane scholarship."-- The Wall Street Journal "These stories and the recordings -- capturing the voices of everyday people, not pop stars -- simply crackle."- Los Angeles Times , "Extraordinary. . . . A masterpiece of humane scholarship."-- The Wall Street Journal "These stories and the recordings -- capturing the voices of everyday people, not pop stars -- simply crackle."- Los Angeles Times, "Offers an understanding not only of a musical thread vital to American culture, but of America itself."-- Publishers Weekly "Astonishing. . . . These stories are compelling, moving and revelatory."-- Chicago Tribune , Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016. ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2013. Award for Excellence for Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2013. "Extraordinary. . . . A masterpiece of humane scholarship."-- The Wall Street Journal "These stories and the recordings -- capturing the voices of everyday people, not pop stars -- simply crackle."- Los Angeles Times, ''Offers an understanding not only of a musical thread vital to American culture, but of America itself.''--''Publishers Weekly'' ''Astonishing. . . . These stories are compelling, moving and revelatory.''--''Chicago Tribune''
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
781.6213
Synopsis
"The Beautiful Music All Around Us" presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by.Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on "the Library's recording machine" in a rendering of "Rock Island Line"; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme "Pullin' the Skiff"; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into "Glory in the Meetinghouse."Alongside loving and expert profiles of these performers and their locales and communities, Wade also untangles the histories of these iconic songs and tunes, tracing them through slave songs and spirituals, British and homegrown ballads, fiddle contests, gospel quartets, and labor laments. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy.Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in "The Beautiful Music All Around Us" bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The paperback edition does not include an accompanying CD.", The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by. Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on "the Library's recording machine" in a rendering of "Rock Island Line"; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme "Pullin' the Skiff"; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into "Glory in the Meetinghouse." Alongside loving and expert profiles of these performers and their locales and communities, Wade also untangles the histories of these iconic songs and tunes, tracing them through slave songs and spirituals, British and homegrown ballads, fiddle contests, gospel quartets, and labor laments. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy. Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in The Beautiful Music All Around Us bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The hardcover edition also includes an accompanying CD that presents these thirteen performances, songs and sounds of America in the 1930s and '40s., The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942, in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. These performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel ......, The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942, in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. These performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, ''amplifying tradition's gifts,'' Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy.
LC Classification Number
ML3550.W34 2015
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