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Through its Decca 5000 series of the 1930s and 1940s, the American Decca recording company became the most influential record label in the burgeoning hillbilly music category, the forerunner of today's country and western music.

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This book traces the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans.

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A presentation of Charlie Parker's ten sessions, recorded with Dial, which includes the repertory, original issues and reissues, titles and notated transcriptions, and analyses of performances.

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The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history.

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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular.

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Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a mystery tour of the late 60s rock world to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought second hand in a London music store in 1973 is the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record Purple Haze in January 1967. Follow the clues on this fascinating journey into Hendrix history.

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This work includes the entire spectrum.

The work includes every book published about the band, every article that appeared in a major magazine or journal, chapters and entries in books, and articles from The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner newspapers.

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The Grateful Deads 100 Essential Songs examines the bands remarkable musical legacy, delving into 100 songs (plus a few extras) performed by the Dead throughout their career. It includes a playlist of performance and studio recordings, as well as other song analyses and first-hand narratives of hundreds of Dead concerts.

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"In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, regg"

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"The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backsw"

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The heart of Smith's well-researched, meticulously assembled discography is the detailed chronology of every Cash recording date through April 1984. Information given includes session date, location, musicians, producer, songs recorded (including takes), songwriter and release history.

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A continuation of the 40-year recording career of one of the most popular country music performers of our time, this second volume (the first published by Greenwood in 1985) follows Johnny Cash's recording activity from 1984 through 1993.

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This catalog is divided into four major sections: singles, extended-play albums, long-play albums, and compact discs.

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Carey Fleiner examines English rock group the Kinks and their social and cultural influences both on and by the group from the early '60s to present day. In and around the biographical survey of the band's career, The Kinks looks at the several contexts in which the Kinks--and more recently, band founders and brother Ray and Dave Davies as solo acts--created and performed their work.

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In a sequel to Dave Oliphant's The Early Swing Era: 1930 to 1941, McClellan (professional education, Berklee College of Music, Boston) profiles big bands, vocalists, and small groups playing swing music during World War II and--unlike most commentators-- on through the next decade.

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Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen

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"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man."-Martin Amis

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"Huddie Ledbetter (1889--1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figure"

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The first overview of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, and a discussion of in what ways music journalists contribute to the people and music they write about.

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Now fully updated with a new chapter: The classic introduction to the bebop era and the legendary performers who created it

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Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock 'n' roll band of the last four decades. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.