Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; JAZZ AND BLUES; Jazz: Black Art/American Art; Perspectives; Perspectives; The San Francisco Jazz Scene; Jimmy Witherspoon, At the Monterey Jazz Festival; John Coltrane, Olé Coltrane; School Jazz Has Quality; Louis Plays the Claremont; This Year at Monterey; Billie Holiday, The Golden Years, Vol. II; The Greatness of Carmen McRae; Guaraldi and Sete-A Happy Union; John Handy, Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival; "Soul Sauce"-A Hummer's Hit; Mingus Mail Album a Huge Success; B.B. King, Completely Well; The Rewards in Mingus' Music. |
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Miles Davis, Bitches BrewThe Sunlight and Beauty of Johnny Hodges; God Bless Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington, The Pianist; Cal Tjader, Los Ritmos Calientes!; Ben Webster: Another Giant Gone; Frank: Then and Now; Farewell to the Duke; FOLK, ROCK, AND POP; The Limeliters, Through Children's Eyes: Little-Folk Songs for Adults; The Magic of Joan Baez; Pete Seeger Is Here Tonight; Odetta the Incomparable; A Folk-Singing Social Critic; The Beatles' Mersey Sound; Who really Is Bob Dylan?; Jefferson Airplane, Takes Off; A Warm and Groovy Affair; Dawn of True Sexual Hysteria. |
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Hank Williams, Roy Acuff and Then God!!Another Candle Blown Out; Altamont Revisited on Film; Simon and Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme; Unreleased Bob Dylan Album; San Francisco-The American Liverpool; COMEDY; Satire, Reality and Dick Gregory; Jonathan Winters, Another Day, Another World; The Bill Cosby World of Youth; Lenny Bruce, The Real Lenny Bruce; POLITICS AND CULTURE; The Casualties of Mass Society; The Tragedy at the Greek Theatre; The Times, They Are A-Changin'; The Flower Children; Like a Rolling Stone; Sound Is Without Color; Fighting Fire with Fire: An End to Logic. |
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We Need an Honest PresidentWe've Got to Get Rid of Nixon; Payola: It's in the Grooves; Law & Order & the Business of Politics; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
This sterling anthology, edited by Gleason's son Toby, himself a forty-year veteran of the music business, spans Ralph J. Gleason's four decades as popular music's preeminent commentator. Drawing from a rich variety of sources, including Gleason's books, essays, interviews, and LP record album liner notes, it is essential reading for writers, historians, scholars, and music lovers of every stripe. |
Subject |
Popular music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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Music criticism and reviews. (OCoLC)fst01919942
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Music criticism and reviews.
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Interviews.
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Added Author |
Gleason, Toby.
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Wenner, Jann.
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Scanlon, Paul.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gleason, Ralph J. Music in the Air. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2016 9780300212167 |
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