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[Barry Mazor] Ò Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" 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 "Blue Yodel" and "In the Jailhouse Now." 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. H
| Title | : | Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199891869 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
10 Star Book that belongs in every home, several if possible! Tony Thomas Mazor does not reduplicate the great job Porterfield did finding and assembling the details of Jimmie Rodgers' biography. Instead, this book is about the why of Jimmie Rodgers and what it means for the reality of musical culture and American history. He tells us what different streams flowed together to produce both Jimmie Rodgers the musical performer and what different streams that flowed together to produce the tremendous response that Jimmie Rodgers is still receiving. In doing this, he tells much of the st. Drowning in Detail This book traces the influences that Jimmie Rodgers' music has had on innumerable genres and musicians. Mazor, a writer on country music, became a fan of Jimmie Rodgers' music as a teenager. In this book, he follows his interest in Rodgers' music to the n-th degree, delving with a fine toothed comb into the stories of everyone who ever covered a Jimmie Rodgers song. At the end of each chapter are suggested listening lists, enabling interested readers to search out these covers and other songs by artists who may. "Interesting, Unexpected Portrait of an American Original" according to frankp9Interesting, Unexpected Portrait of an American Original When I first noticed the publisher of "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers" was Oxford University Press, I wondered what I might be in for: Schenkerian reductions of "Blue Yodel #9"? HIP-approved performance suggestions for flatpicked bass-runs using period tortoiseshell picks and flatwound strings?But alas, there's no theory here, at least in the musical sense. Mazor's intention is to position Rodgers as a pivotal figure in American music, bridging nineteenth century minstrel, ragtime, blues, vaudeville, parlor sentimental. . When I first noticed the publisher of "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers" was Oxford University Press, I wondered what I might be in for: Schenkerian reductions of "Blue Yodel #9"? HIP-approved performance suggestions for flatpicked bass-runs using period tortoiseshell picks and flatwound strings?But alas, there's no theory here, at least in the musical sense. Mazor's intention is to position Rodgers as a pivotal figure in American music, bridging nineteenth century minstrel, ragtime, blues, vaudeville, parlor sentimental
"The story of Rodgers' enormous influence, bursting with names of stars, stalwarts, and one-hit wonders, and featuring discographical endnotes for most chapters, is the immensely piquant and satisfying meat of one of the most intelligent, fascinating, and cogent pop-music histories ever."--BookList (Starred Review) "Nashville writer Mazor has fashioned a superb book, not only celebrating Rodgers' life, but illustrating the manner in which the man's wares have influenced American popular music for over 80 years Mazor's book does much in keeping the legend alive."--MOJO Magazine(5-star review) "Excellent, highly readable." -- Douglas Brinkley, historian and
Barry Mazor has been writing about American music since the 1970s. A long-time senior editor for the roots and pop music magazine No Depression, he writes frequently on country and pop music for The Wall Street Journal.
In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" 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 "Blue Yodel" and "In the Jailhouse Now." 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. 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.. 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
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