King of the Queen City - The Story of King Records

Informationen zum Autor Jon Hartley Fox is a resident of Grass Valley, California and has written about music and the arts for forty years. He has won two writing awards for album annotation from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA). Klappentext From James Brown to the Stanley Brothers, the story of the glory years of a pioneering independent American record company Zusammenfassung Offers a comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. This book tells the story of a small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, that attracted an extremely diverse roster of artists, including the Stanley Brothers, Grandpa Jones, Redd Foxx and Earl Bostic.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Fox, Jon Hartley Fox
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2009
• EAN: 9780252034688
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03468-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: University of Illinois Press; Music in American Life; Music in American Life; Music in American Life (Hardco
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches