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Pub. Date
1998
Description
Traces the process by which female performers have come to dominate the American music industry, drawing from an analysis of four decades of chart data, as well as interviews with recording artists, industry executives, and managers in an attempt to explain the revolution.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrates the pioneers and artists of American roots music--blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, and Native American--without which there would be no jazz, rock, country, R & B, or hip hop today.
"American Epic, a historic music project ... explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge portable...