ISBN: 9780195327625

Up from the roots musical heroes regularly emerge in America, seemingly showing up from nowhere with the power not just to speak to us, but to represent us. Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, … Mehr…

Up from the roots musical heroes regularly emerge in America, seemingly showing up from nowhere with the power not just to speak to us, but to represent us. Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash were all like that. But before them, influencing all three and myriad performers incountry music, rock and roll, blues, bluegrass, commercial folk, Western Swing, cowboy crooning, and pop, was America''s original popular roots music hero, Jazz Age vaudevillian and recording star Jimmie Rodgers. This book is the first to look at Rodgers'' deep, under-explored musical legacy from a21st Century perspective. An anchor in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and American Songwriters'' Halls of Fame, Rodgers has been promulgated as the songwriting ""Singing Brakeman,"" ""The Father of Country Music,"" and the rough and rowdy king of white man''s blues, his image becoming so multiplex over time that the artisthimself becomes vague. His immense but diffused musical contribution, it''s said, is just ""out there in our musical DNA"", and Meeting Jimmie Rodgers traces all of the fascinating mutations and adaptations throughout the history of American popular music. Through carefully researched accounts, first-hand interviews and musical examinations, author Barry Mazor tracks, colorfully and conversationally, the remarkably varied places the man''s music has gone, how it got there, and how our sense of its has been altered by re-interpreters who''ve grabbedhold of it along the way, including potent performers from Ernest Tubb to Lead Belly, Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie, Bill Monroe, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan and Lynyrd Skynyrd. In reconstructing Rodgers'' singular, far-flung legacy, Mazor clears the way forreaders to experience the music for themselves again directly - meeting Jimmie Rodgers and his music not as some ""weird artifact"" from a remote era , but as a potent, immediate force. | Meeting Jimmie Rodgers by Barry Mazor Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Music & Movies & Performing Arts > Music P10122, Barry Mazor<

ISBN: 9780195327625

New. In the nearly eight decades since his death from tuberculosis at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers-from Woody Gut… Mehr…

New. In the nearly eight decades since his death from tuberculosis at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers-from Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Bill Monroe and Hank Williams to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, and Beck. How did this Mississippi-born vaudevillian, a former railroad worker who performed so briefly so long ago, produce tones, tunes, and themes that have had such broad influence and made him the model for the way American roots music stars could become popular heroes? In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of &quot;The Singing Brakeman&quot; from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as &quot;Blue Yodel&quot; and &quot;In the Jailhouse Now.&quot; As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. His wistful singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics-set him apart from most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas-working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man-that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him. Mazor goes beyond Rodgers's own life to map the varied places his music has gone, forever changing not just country music but also rock and roll, blues, jazz, bluegrass, Western, commercial folk, and much more. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure, but as a vibrant, immediate force., 6<

2009, ISBN: 0195327624

[EAN: 9780195327625], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press], BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & COMPOSERS MUSICIANS MUSIC HISTORY CRITICISM GENRES STYLES ROCK, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Dem… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780195327625], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press], BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & COMPOSERS MUSICIANS MUSIC HISTORY CRITICISM GENRES STYLES ROCK, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, Barry Mazor traces our ever-evolving response to the performing songwriter who has influenced country, rock, and blues for 80 years, as transformed by artists from Ernest Tubb to Bill Monroe, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bob Dylan. This ., Books<

2009, ISBN: 9780195327625

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2009