Magic City Nights (eBook)

Birmingham’s Rock ’n’ Roll Years

Andre Millard (Autor)

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2017
376 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7699-6 (ISBN)

Infos

<P>This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Magic City Nights provides an insider's view of the dramatic changes in the business and status of popular music from the era of the vacuum tube to twenty-first-century digital technology. These collective memories offer a unique perspective on the impact of a subversive and racially integrated music culture in one of the most conservative and racially divided cities in the country.</P>

Autor

amp;lt;P>ANDRE MILLARD is a historian of popular culture and professor of history at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is the author of Edison and the Business of Innovation, America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound, The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, and Beatlemania.</P>

Inhalt

<P>Introduction<BR>Rock 'n' Roll Comes to Birmingham<BR>Records and Rock 'n' Roll<BR>The Garage Bands<BR>On the Road<BR>Race and Music in Birmingham<BR>Music in the Struggle for Civil Rights<BR>The Beatles Are Coming!<BR>Birmingham and the Counterculture<BR>The Muscle Shoals Sound<BR>Southern Rock<BR>Opportunity Knocks<BR>The Morris Avenue Boom<BR>Decline and Fall: The End of Southern Rock<BR>The New Wave<BR>The Next Big Thing<BR>Music and Community<BR>The Curse of Tommy Charles<BR>Birmingham Music in the Digital Age<BR>Notes<BR>Index</P>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Interview
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Interview
• Reihe/Serie: Music/Interview
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: Alabama • american roots • American Studies • Birmingham • Cultural Studies • Folk • music • Music History • n&#8217 • Oral History • Rock&#8217 • rock music • Rock’n’Roll • Roll • Southern Culture • Southern US History
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-7699-9 / 0819576999
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7699-6 / 9780819576996