James Brown's ' Live at the Apollo'

Zusatztext According to Pitchfork contributor Douglas Wolk’s careful reconstruction of the making of Live at the Apollo, nuclear annihilation may have been averted by sheer force of Brown’s will. Of course, the hardest-working man in show business had nothing to do with foreign relations, but Wolk shows how those fears of mass obliteration stoked Brown’s showcase, pushing him to give even more to his crowd and prodding his audience to scream and shout as though their lives depended on it. Fortunately, humanity not only survived a nuclear standoff, but we got one of the greatest live albums ever. Informationen zum Autor Douglas Wolk writes about music. His work appears regularly in The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Slate, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and many other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Klappentext In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem - an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together what took place (and what was recorded) that night, and illustrates beautifully the enduring power of one of James Brown's - and popular music's - defining moments: Live at the Apollo. Zusammenfassung Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album.

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Douglas Wolk

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• Authors: Douglas Wolk, Wolk Douglas
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780826415721
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-1572-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 165 mm x 7 mm
• Series: 33 1/3; 33 1/3
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Music; USA, Soul and Funk, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, United States of America, USA, Popular Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B, Soul & R 'n' B