| Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780472089567 |
How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture
One Nation Under a Groove
| Author | : Jim Haskins |
| Publisher | : Jump At The Sun |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000-12-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780786804788 |
Examines the origins and evolution of rap music, its African roots, and continuing popularity.
Listening to the Future
| Author | : Bill Martin |
| Publisher | : Open Court |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2015-12-14 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0812699440 |
In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further. "Written with the insights of an academic, the authority of a musicologist, and—best of all—the passion of a true fan. Martin charts topographic oceans, courts crimson kings, does some brain salad surgery, and generally rocks out in 7/8 time." —Jim DeRogatis Sun-Times music critic
Groove Tube
| Author | : Aniko Bodroghkozy |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2001-02-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822326458 |
DIVTelevision of the 60s and its attempts to deal with youth culture./div
Chocolate Cities
| Author | : Marcus Anthony Hunter |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2018-01-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520292820 |
When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.
The Story of Motown
| Author | : Peter Benjaminson |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780802142856 |
Motown was part of growing up in the 1960's and 70's. An amazing number of well-known stars worked for Motown: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jr Walker and the All Stars, Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Edwin Starr, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Lamont Dozier, Shorty Long, the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Fifth dimension, the Marvelettes, the Contours, the Isley Brothers, the Spinners, the Originals, the Jackson Five, the Commodores, Rare Earth, Rick James, and many others. Most were Motown stars. Many started and ended with Motown. Motown is important for other reasons. A black company, Motown made black music popular among Americans of all ages.
Funk
| Author | : Rickey Vincent |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2014-11-04 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1466884525 |
Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates the songs, the musicians, the philosophy, and the meaning of funk. The book spans from the early work of James Brown (the Godfather of Funk) through today, covering funky soul (Stevie Wonder, the Temptations), so-called "black rock" (Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers), jazz-funk (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock), monster funk (Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band), naked funk (Rick James, Gap Band), disco-funk (Chic, K.C. and the Sunshine Band), funky pop (Kook & the Gang, Chaka Khan), P-Funk Hip Hop (Digital Underground, De La Soul), funk-sampling rap (Ice Cube, Dr. Dre), funk rock (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus), and more. Funk tells a vital, vibrant history-the history of a uniquely American music born out of tradition and community, filled with energy, attitude, anger, hope, and an irrepressible spirit.
Dust & Grooves
| Author | : Eilon Paz |
| Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2015-09-15 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1607748703 |
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
I Hear a Symphony
| Author | : Andrew Flory |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2017-05-30 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0472122878 |
I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues while developing the famous “Motown Sound.” Throughout the book, Flory focuses on the central importance of “crossover” to the Motown story; first as a key concept in the company’s efforts to reach across American commercial markets, then as a means to extend influence internationally, and finally as a way to expand the brand beyond strictly musical products. Flory’s work reveals the richness of the Motown sound, and equally rich and complex cultural influence Motown still exerts.
