Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy : Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots /

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In a piano factory tucked away in Richmond, Indiana, Gennett Records produced thousands of records featuring obscure musicians from hotel orchestras and backwoods fiddlers to the future icons of jazz, blues, country music, and rock 'n' roll. From 1916 to 1934, the company debuted such futu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Rick, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Gioia, Ted
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Starr Piano Company. > Gennett Record Division.
Sound recording industry.
Jazz.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Sound recording industry > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A music dynasty in Victorian Indiana?
  • A new wind is blowing through Chicago
  • Jazz hysteria in the Hoosier state?
  • Old-time music in the new electronic era
  • When Gennett Records gets the blues
  • Yet the music lives on
  • Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.

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