Soul & R 'n B

The Northern Soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s, it still thrives today with a mix of fifty-year olds and new converts, and its celebration of 1960s Soul has an international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413856Author Damon WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

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Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyonce Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyonce in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the...

To tell the story of Morris Day is to tell the story of Prince. Not because they were inseparable or because their paths never diverged, but because, even when their paths did diverge, they always intersected again. Each artist lifted the other up,...

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the...

In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk recreates the evening of October 24th 1962, at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, an evening at the epicentre of Cold War tensions. An evening when James Brown took the stage to be faced by 1500 screaming fans - fans who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212721Author Chris WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978803596Author Robert J. PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

A selection of writings, published between 1911 and 1998, on the subject of blues music. Included are contributions by folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary artists, musicians, critics and aficionados. The appeal of blues music is...

Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897--1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415089Author David A. LessFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

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Maceo Parker's signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in 1964. That style helped define Brown's brand of funk, and the phrase "Maceo, I want you to blow!" ...

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garnered both praise and criticism. While some consider her an icon of female empowerment, others see her as detrimental to feminism and representing a negative...

Beginning in the year of Prince's birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota's first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political...

The history of Soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre without them. This does not mean, however, that those who back singers, those who play instruments - ...

Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the...

Formed by five young black men from Chicago, the Flamingos rose to prominence as one of the top vocal acts of the 1950s rock and roll explosion. They appeared in motion pictures and turned out a string of hit records that have remained popular for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452289468Author Nelson GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 22mm

In this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth look at this under-explored genre. Danielsen concentrates on the golden age of funk in the late 1960s and the 1970s, focusing on two of the era's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979097669Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amber Communications GroupPublisher Amber Communications GroupWeight(grams) 314g

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Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh music. Many young people incorporate their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514700471Author Rashad Skyla MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh music. Many young people incorporate their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542335928Author James Robert ParishFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519121646Author Rashad Skyla MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Starting in 1945 and continuing for the next twenty years, dozens of African American rhythm and blues artists made records that incorporated West Indian calypso. Some of these recordings were remakes or adaptations of existing calypsos, but many were...

Starting in 1945 and continuing for the next twenty years, dozens of African American rhythm and blues artists made records that incorporated West Indian calypso. Some of these recordings were remakes or adaptations of existing calypsos but many were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469198224Author Anthony C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 150g

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In Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire, Trenton Bailey traces the humble beginning of Maurice White, his development as a musician, and his formation of Earth, Wind & Fire, a band that became a global phenomenon during the...