The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll: Music in American Life
Autor James M. Salemen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2001
James M. Salem captures the enigmatic, captivating, and influential R&B legend. Venturing from raucous Beale Street to Houston's vibrant Fourth Ward, Salem places Johnny Ace within a multifaceted world of postwar rhythm and blues that included B. B. King, Johnny Otis, Big Mama Thornton, and Gatemouth Brown. Salem also examines how entrepreneur Don D. Robey and his wife Evelyn Johnson promoted Ace to the top of the charts. Yet fame, as always, had a price. Ace's tours on the Chitlin' Circuit meant endless one-night stands and a grueling schedule that kept him on the road 340 days per year.
Comprehensive and filled with anecdotes, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll tells the story of the star who fused black and white styles and changed American popular music forever.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780252069697
ISBN-10: 0252069692
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Music in American Life
ISBN-10: 0252069692
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Music in American Life
Recenzii
"A
scholarly
work
and
a
piece
of
genuine
research,
yet
it
reads
easily
and
has
a
feel
for
both
period
and
musical
form.
.
.
.
A
fine
line
between
academic
rigour
and
narrative
drive
is
expertly
negotiated.
It
also
leads
you
scurrying
off
to
those
haunting,
delicate
songs
that
meant
so
much
to
so
many
listeners."--Pop
Matters
Book
Review
"Salem's work represents how academic history can bring greater insight and greater accuracy to the recording of popular music history. . . . [This volume] is a terrific read and keeps you turning the pages, even when you know how it ends. This is the most exciting book on popular music that this reviewer has read in the past few years."--Robert Pruter, Goldmine
"This meticulously researched volume tells the tragic tale of the star-crossed Memphis crooner whose most famous record "Pledging My Love" rode up the charts in 1955, the year after the talented singer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The book also sheds serious light on the powerful changes undergone by pop music in the '50s, changes whose effects are still being felt. Just as valuable are the illuminating portraits Salem paints of the thriving musical, social, business, and cultural scenes that existed in Memphis and Houston in the late '40s and '50s."--Kevin Toelle, Illinois Entertainer
"Salem's book is the first all-embracing look at Ace, known for his posthumous hit, 'Pledging My Love'. . . . Read Salem's account--an essential addition to books on Memphis music--and Ace seems all too tragically human."--Bill Ellis, Commercial Appeal
"[Salem] has brought his brilliant research skills to almost every aspect of the history, society, music and popular culture that created the Johnny Ace phenomenon, and every ramification of his death from Russian roulette on Christmas Day, 1954. . . . This is a magnificently historical work, and, of huge interest to music lovers. . . . A genuine high point in the bibliography of our music."--Pete Bowen, Now Dig This
"Salem's work represents how academic history can bring greater insight and greater accuracy to the recording of popular music history. . . . [This volume] is a terrific read and keeps you turning the pages, even when you know how it ends. This is the most exciting book on popular music that this reviewer has read in the past few years."--Robert Pruter, Goldmine
"This meticulously researched volume tells the tragic tale of the star-crossed Memphis crooner whose most famous record "Pledging My Love" rode up the charts in 1955, the year after the talented singer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The book also sheds serious light on the powerful changes undergone by pop music in the '50s, changes whose effects are still being felt. Just as valuable are the illuminating portraits Salem paints of the thriving musical, social, business, and cultural scenes that existed in Memphis and Houston in the late '40s and '50s."--Kevin Toelle, Illinois Entertainer
"Salem's book is the first all-embracing look at Ace, known for his posthumous hit, 'Pledging My Love'. . . . Read Salem's account--an essential addition to books on Memphis music--and Ace seems all too tragically human."--Bill Ellis, Commercial Appeal
"[Salem] has brought his brilliant research skills to almost every aspect of the history, society, music and popular culture that created the Johnny Ace phenomenon, and every ramification of his death from Russian roulette on Christmas Day, 1954. . . . This is a magnificently historical work, and, of huge interest to music lovers. . . . A genuine high point in the bibliography of our music."--Pete Bowen, Now Dig This
Notă biografică
James
M.
Salem was
a
professor
emeritus
in
and
longtime
chair
of
the
Department
of
American
Studies
at
the
University
of
Alabama.