Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music /

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous-even revolutionary-A & R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world. It is the story of the life and 50-year career of the man who was crucial in discovering star...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mazor, Barry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Peer, Ralph Sylvester, > 1892-1960.
Peer, Ralph Sylvester, > 1892-1960
Sound recording executives and producers > United States > Biography.
Sound recording industry > United States > Biography.
Enregistrements sonores > Industrie > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Sound recording executives and producers
Sound recording industry
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Front Flip; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: "Something New-Built Along the Same Lines"; 1. Starting Out: Independence, 1892-1919; 2. Getting the Music: Okeh, Records, and Roots, 1919-1926; 3. To Victor, On to Bristol, and the Making of Giants, 1926-1927; 4. Reaching Out from the Roots: Southern Music, 1927-1933; 5. Breaking Loose, Branching Out, Starting Over, 1933-1940; 6. Crossing Borders: The War, Latin Music, and the Media, 1940-1945; 7. Going Global: Expansion, 1946-1951; 8. Locking a Legacy, 1952-1960; 9. The Roots and Pop Aftermath.
  • Appendix: Key Recordings and Published Songs of Ralph Peer, 1920-1960Acknowledgments; Notes and Sources; Index; Back Flip; Back Cover.

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