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- Rick Kennedy
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Signed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780253335487
- Book Title
- Little Labels--Big Sound : Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Music, Business & Economics
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Business Aspects, Industries / Entertainment, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Little Labels -- Big Sound celebrates 10 legendary record labels, their founders and the artists they developed, people who created original and enduring music on the tide of social change. From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll. These companies, run on shoestring budgets, were on the fringe of mainstream culture. Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, James Brown, Roy Orbison, and other musicians brought regional American styles to a world audience and won enduring fame for themselves. But often forgotten are the colorful owners of small record labels who first recorded these musicians and helped to popularize their sound before the dominant, more bureaucratic competitors knew what had happened. Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt bring alive the glory days of the independent labels and their colorful founders, many of whom were interviewed for this book. Sometimes these men were visionaries. Ross Russell, a record-store owner in Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, risked his last dollar to create Dial Records because he was convinced that an obscure jazz saxophonist named Charlie Parker was creating a music revolution with his bebop jazz. Sam Phillips in Memphis had recorded white country and black R&B singers in the early 1950s, so he knew exactly what he was looking for when a shy, teenaged Elvis Presley walked into his storefront studio in 1954 and asked to make a record. Other owners had little appreciation for the music but were street-smart entrepreneurs. The white-owned ""race"" labels of the 1920s, for example, recognized a black consumer market thatthe recording business had previously ignored. Operating out of such cities as Houston, Memphis, Cincinnati, and New Orleans, these savvy business people promoted regional sounds that were to reverberate around the world. But influencing the development of music wasn't what these record-label owners had in mind; they were just trying to earn a living. Today, when most of the independent record labels have gone under or have been gobbled up by big conglomerates, the music they produced on primitive equipment remains fresh -- and bigger than life. Little Labels -- Big Sound tells with verve and affection the story of the people and the small homegrown companies who gave America its beat.
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253335485
ISBN-13
9780253335487
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Little Labels--Big Sound : Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Business Aspects, Industries / Entertainment, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Music, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ml3792.K46 1999
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"In this era of monolithic record companies and predictably contrived music, it's refreshing to read about mavericks who took chances. . . . a look at ten visionaries who altered the course of popular music." --Playboy" . . . close-up portraits of risk-taking label owners who often gambled their careers and livelihoods to release music they believed in." --Billboard" . . . [a] volume that--like the labels it celebrates, and the 45s and 78s those labels put out--is full of exciting and vital content." --San Francisco Chronicle"This book is a great piece of storytelling. . . . well written, crammed full of interesting facts, and great fun." --Dirty Linen"Kennedy and McNutt celebrate the predecessors of today's vaunted indie record companies in this rich survey. . . . In profiling the feisty underdogs who produced so much music that 'is still very much with us,' Kennedy and McNutt also explore the commercial and social forces affecting the industry." --Booklist
Table of Content
Preface Introduction: Little Labels and the American Beat, 1920-1970 1. Gennett Records 2. Paramount Records 3. Dial Records 4. King Records 5. Duke-Peacock Records 6. Sun Records 7. Riverside Records 8. Ace Records 9. Monument Records 10. Delmark Records Little Labels on Reissue Anthologies Notes Bibliography Index
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