If It Swings Its Music

Author : Gabe Baltazar
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865707
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If It Swings, It's Music written by Gabe Baltazar and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawai‘i’s legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, the first book on his life and career, Gabe takes readers through the highs, lows, and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist. At a young age Gabe was encouraged by his father, an accomplished musician, to take up the clarinet and saxophone. As a teenager during World War II, Gabe performed with the Royal Hawaiian Band but spent his weekends playing in swing bands. After establishing himself in the West Coast jazz scene, in 1960 he rose to prominence as lead alto saxophonist of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Following a four-year stint with Kenton, Gabe worked as a valued studio musician, recording with Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, and James Moody, among others. In 1969 he returned to Honolulu and went on to become Hawai‘i’s premier jazz artist, a role he admirably fulfilled for over forty years. Even into his eighties, Gabe remained active in jazz education and performed regularly. Gabe’s memorable encounters with some of the greatest names in jazz and popular entertainment will delight music fans, while readers of Hawai‘i and Asian-American life-writing will find in this work a fond record of days past told with humor and heart.

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736762
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing, that Modern Sound written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose during the worst of times, the Great Depression. From its peak in the 1930s until bebop, r & b, and country swamped it after World War II, swing defined an American generation and measured America's musical heartbeat. In its heyday swing reached a mass audience of very disparate individuals and united them. They perceived in the tempers and tempos of swing the very definition of modernity. A survey of the thirties reveals that the time was indeed the Swing Era, America's segue into modernity. What social structures encouraged swing's creation, acceptance, and popularity? Swing, That Modern Sound examines the cultural and historical significance of swing and tells how and why it achieved its audience, unified its fans, defined its generation, and, after World War II, fell into decline. What fed the music? And, in turn, what did the music feed? This book shows that swing manifested the kind of up-to-date allure that the populace craved. Swing sounded modern, happy, optimistic. It flouted the hardship signals of the Great Depression. The key to its rise and appeal, this book argues, was its all-out appropriation of modernity--consumer advertising, the language and symbols of consumption, and the public's all-too-evident wish for goods during a period of scarcity. As it examines the role of race, class, and gender in the creation of this modern music, Swing, That Modern Sound tells how a music genre came to symbolize the cultural revolution taking place in America. Kenneth J. Bindas is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Trumbull Campus, in Warren, Ohio. He is the author of All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society, 1935--1939.

Author : Oren Freshour
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 168289567X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And They Called It Swing, Its History, The Bands, Its Legacy written by Oren Freshour and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's History, The Bands, It's Legacy In this book the author gives the complete history of Swing music and Big Bands from it's beginning to it‘s place in the world today. It tells where it began. When it began. How it spread and grew to become America's number one popular music in the 1930’s and 40’s. The names and dates of the originators, the players, the bands, the composers, the arrangers, the side men, the hit songs, they are all here. It tells the story of Swing music’s role in radio, and the history of disc jockeys. It tells how Swing music helped the recording industry and how records helped the success of name bands. The book also explains Swing’s affect on the nation during it’s years of popularity. It tells how during the time of segregation, the youth of America cared little about the color of Swing bands and their musicians. It tells how during the great depression, the youth of that period became crazed with Swing similar to how Rock and Roll swept the youth during the 1960’s. It tells how those same young people, who would later be called the Greatest Generation, spread the music around the world while fighting WWII. It tells how and when Swing broke the color barrier in music despite living in a nation of segregation. Swing and Swing bands were instrumental in proving segregation had no place in popular music long before the laws of social justice came into being. The reader who loves music and/or history will find this book informative as well as entertaining. Enjoy.

Author : Degen Pener
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316076678
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swing Book written by Degen Pener and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.

Author : Ira Gitler
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195050703
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing to Bop written by Ira Gitler and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period.

Author : Michael Borshuk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000938840
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swinging the Vernacular written by Michael Borshuk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.

Author : Howard Reich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810127059
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Freedom Swing written by Howard Reich and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let Freedom Swing is a wonderful title for a book and the contents also swing."-Marian McPartland --

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Clubs Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Inglis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000849627
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electro Swing written by Chris Inglis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Chris Inglis considers key questions about electro swing’s place in contemporary society, including what it may mean for a contemporary genre to be so reliant upon the influences of the past; the different ways in which jazz may be presented to a modern audience; how one may go about defining jazz in today's postmodern world; and how this emergent genre may be analysed in terms of the wider issues of race and class consumption.

Author : Wynton Marsalis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393035148
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Swing Blues on the Road written by Wynton Marsalis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year in the life of the jazz musician and composer includes his views on rap, the road, romance, creativity, politics, culture, and the role of the artist in American society.