Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy - Gennett Records and the Rise of America''s Musical Grassroots

Informationen zum Autor Rick Kennedy is a veteran communications manager with General Electric Company and a former journalist. A freelance music writer for more than 30 years, he is author (with Randy McNutt) of Little Labels-Big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music (IUP, 2001). Klappentext Rick Kennedy is a veteran communications manager with General Electric Company and a former journalist. A freelance music writer for more than 30 years, he is author (with Randy McNutt) of Little Labels¿Big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music (IUP, 2001). Zusammenfassung Shares anecdotes from musicians, employees, and family members to trace the colourful history of one of America's most innovative record companies Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Ted Gioia Gennett Records Timeline Introduction 1. A Music Dynasty in Victorian Indiana 2. A New Wind Is Blowing through Chicago 3. Jazz Hysteria in the Hoosier State 4. Old-Time Music in the New Electronic Era 5. When Gennett Records Gets the Blues 6. Yet the Music Lives On Suggested Listening: Fifty Classics by Gennett Records Notes Selected Bibliography Index Index of Songs

Product details

• Authors: Richard Lee Kennedy, Rick Kennedy, Rick Lee Kennedy
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2013
• EAN: 9780253007476
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00747-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history