Jazz Blues category: 910 books
by Melody Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Explore the music and songs of artists like Van Halen, Boy George, Andy Williams and Michael Bolton. Seventies Soul Artists: Delfonics, O'Jays, Jerry Butler, Teddy Pendergrass, Stylistics, Spinners and their Philadelphia label are discussed. Leon Russell, Bonnie and Delaney and influences on guitar greats like Clapton, Mason, Harrison and Allman are covered.
Women of Motown: An Oral History
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The second edition of Women of Motown by author Susan Whitall contains new chapters and information, updating this critically-acclaimed oral history of the ladies who made Motown a sound heard round the world. Originally published to glowing reviews in 1998, the first edition has long been out of...
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #2
Volume "0-9" (Sept. 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #2
We're back again with our second volume ! At last, here it ist! They said it couldn't be done. We already did it twice You can now get access to the FIRST even released eBook including all comprehensive, verified and certified Biographies &...
Working for the Man, Playing in the Band
My Years with James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A young, long-haired rock guitarist finds the funk on stage with the Godfather of Soul
In this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music’s most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown’s Soul Generals.
In a memoir certain...
Country Soul
Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and...
Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds
Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Café Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups. Now, Jerry Zolten tells...
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and...
by Sandra Jean Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and...
Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and...
Faces of Praise!
Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This full-color photo gift book that turns chart-topping contemporary gospel music into Bible-based devotions is a three-way blessing for readers: a perfect companion to favorite gospel recordings, an encouraging devotional and a unique photo collection.
FACES OF PRAISE! turns your favorite...
by Stan Toler, Dean Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Revive America will give tried and tested steps for drawing closer to God in a world that seems to be going the other direction. In its pages, you will find some of your favorite song lyrics which will remind you of the importance of music and its role in great renewals as well as challenge you to...
by Chris Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
A journey, yes, of sorts.
With purpose, yes, that too. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world – and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. And to generally find his way around in the attempt; all with the lofty dream...
Number 1 With A Bullet
The Real GQ Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
From GQ's meager beginning holding rehearsals in a Bronx, New York basement, to their debut song, "Disco Nights" instantaneously becoming a chart-topping hit, Tony Lopez's page-turning tell-all memoir, Number 1 With A Bullet: The Real GQ Story, is on fire.
Lopez was walking his...
The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk
Pop Gallery eBooks, #8
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
“The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk” (Includes Video Notebook Links at the End of the Manuscript)This eBook traces as far back as Fats Domino and that version of R & B all the way until Disco started to infiltrate the international psyche. James Brown, Aretha, Michael Jackson, they are all there in the...