Making Music in Los Angeles
Author | : Catherine Parsons Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781433708909 |
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Author | : Catherine Parsons Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781433708909 |
Author | : Catherine Parsons Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520933834 |
In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class.
Author | : Catherine Parsons Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520251393 |
A social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, this title ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, LA was a centre for making music long before it became a major metropolis.
Author | : Don Snowden |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1997-11-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780312169121 |
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Los Lobos, and the Go-Gos got their starts in the 1980s Los Angeles music scene. Collected here are the forefathers of this era, speaking out in voices that only the truly initiated possess. Don Snowden has assembled the writers who knew and lived this scene, who were this scene. Color photo insert.
Author | : K. Marcus |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2004-12-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1403978360 |
Decentralization and diversity characterized much of the performance of art music in Los Angeles. Decentralization defined the city's growth since the late-nineteenth century, and because the central city did not dominate music culture, as in the East and Midwest, a greater diversification of music emerged in the communities of Greater Los Angeles. Performers and audiencesincluded Latinos, Euro-Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans, but the notion of diversity goes beyond ethnicity; it also includes 'media diversity', the presentation of music through a variety of media. recording, radio, film media strongly influenced music performance in the city as it grew into the epicenter of entertainment in America.
Author | : Daniel Hurewitz |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520256239 |
Historian Hurewitz brings to life a vibrant and all-but-forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, the personal first became the political, the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale (now part of Silver Lake), Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. He discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations.--From publisher description.
Author | : Christopher McKittrick |
Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1642935123 |
When Tom Petty arrived in Los Angeles in 1974 in search of a record deal for his band Mudcrutch, the Gainesville, Florida native found one almost immediately. While he thought he had found exactly what he was looking for in L.A., it would take years for Petty and his subsequent band, the Heartbreakers, to break onto the pop charts. Within the following two decades, Petty would stay planted in Los Angeles through chart-topping albums, battles with record labels, personal struggles, collaborations with rock and roll royalty, and even an arsonist burning down his home in the San Fernando Valley. From the earliest Heartbreakers concerts in Los Angeles at the legendary Whisky a Go Go and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, to the band’s final concerts at the iconic Hollywood Bowl, Petty aimed to continue the tradition of the Southern California rock and roll of his musical heroes like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield in his own fashion. At the same time, Petty’s career often coincided with seismic shifts in the music business, indicated by Petty’s famous refusal to back down in the face of label management, industry conventions, and the changing courses of platforms that helped make him a superstar, like rock radio and MTV. Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles explores the artistic life of Tom Petty through his career-long relationship with Los Angeles and the many colorful characters and venues that inspired him and his music—including his work with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, Leon Russell, Rick Rubin, and Del Shannon.
Author | : William McKeen |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613734948 |
Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three-and-a-half minutes. But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between naïve young musicians and the fringe elements that exploited the decade's peace-love-and-flowers ethos, all fueled by sex, drugs, and overnight success. One surf music superstar unwittingly subsidized the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. The transplanted Texas singer Bobby Fuller might have been murdered by the Mob in what is still an unsolved case. And after hearing Charlie Manson sing, Neil Young recommended him to the president of Warner Bros. Records. Manson's ultimate rejection by the music industry likely led to the infamous murders that shocked a nation. Everybody Had an Ocean chronicles the migration of the rock 'n' roll business to Southern California and how the artists flourished there. The cast of characters is astonishing—Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, eccentric producer Phil Spector, Cass Elliot, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, and scores of others—and their stories form a modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism and joy and terror. You'll never hear that beautiful music in quite the same way.
Author | : Clora Bryant |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520220980 |
Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Author | : Dennis DeSantis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783981716504 |