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Book Billboard

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  • Release : 1963-11-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-11-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Johnny Wilson

Download or read book Johnny Wilson written by Bob Krauss and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneur, impresario, engineer: Johnny Wilson was all of these, in addition to being one of Hawai'i's most formidable politicians. This is the first biography of John Henry Wilson, whose career spanned the first half of the twentieth century and the wide gulf between Hawaiian monarchy and Hawai'i statehood. Born in 1871, the son of Queen Liliuokalani's marshal, the part-Hawaiian, part-Tahitian, part-Scot, part-Irish road contractor cum music promoter ran for his first political office at age forty-seven, as a reluctant senatorial candidate for the Democratic party - at the time known as "the party of the unwashed." Wilson lost the race but went on to win many others, serving as Democratic national committeeman for three decades and as mayor of Honolulu for fourteen years between 1920 and 1954." "Many facets of Wilson's life dramatize that colorful transition period in Hawai'i's history. As the son of a royal official, Wilson harbored his own ideas about the revolt that overthrew the monarchy. His diaries provide important historical information about early Hawaiian music and dance. The dreams and accomplishments of this early union sympathizer and founder of Hawai'i's Democratic party constitute a unique political history of the territory almost in its entirety. In his familiar, engaging style, veteran newspaper reporter Bob Krauss has recorded the legend of Johnny Wilson.

Book The Soundies

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  • Author : Mark Cantor
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2023-04-19
  • ISBN : 1476646422
  • Pages : 2077 pages

Download or read book The Soundies written by Mark Cantor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 2077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen. Patrons could insert a dime, then listen to and watch such popular entertainers as Nat "King" Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway or Les Paul. A number of companies offered these tuneful delights, but the most successful was the Mills Novelty Company and its three-minute musical shorts called Soundies. This book is a complete filmography of 1,880 Soundies: the musicians heard and seen on screen, recording and filming dates, arrangers, soloists, dancers, entertainment trade reviews and more. Additional filmographies cover more than 80 subjects produced by other companies. There are 125 photos taken on film sets, along with advertising images and production documents. More than 75 interviews narrate the firsthand experiences and recollections of Soundies directors and participants. Forty years before MTV, the Soundies were there for those who loved the popular music of the 1940s. This was truly "music for the eyes."

Book Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog

Download or read book Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acquisition List

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  • Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Hawaiian Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Acquisition List written by University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Hawaiian Collection and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Long Player

Download or read book The Long Player written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Album Covers from the Vinyl Junkyard

Download or read book Album Covers from the Vinyl Junkyard written by Booth-Clibborn Editions and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates 40 years of LP design, standing as a tribute to the forgotten world of disposable sleeve art with over 500 illustrated examples of easy listening, loungecore, world muzak and kitsch classics. Robert Chapman - singer, music journalist and broadcaster - reassesses the sleeve designs in an amusing introduction.

Book Touring Pacific Cultures

Download or read book Touring Pacific Cultures written by Kalissa Alexeyeff and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. In this volume, we propose to explore new directions in understanding how culture is defined, produced, experienced and sustained through tourism-related practices across that region. We ask, how is cultural value, ownership, performance and commodification negotiated and experienced in actual lived practice as it moves with people across the Pacific? ‘This collection is a welcome addition to tourism studies, or perhaps we should say post- or para-tourism. The essays bring out many facets and experiences too quickly bundled under a single label and focused exclusively on “destinations” visited by “outsiders”. Tourism, we see here, actively involves many different populations, societies, and economies, a range of local/global/regional engagements that can be both destructive and creative. Western outsiders aren’t the only ones on the move. Unequal power, (neo)colonial exploitation and capitalist commodification are very much part of the picture. But so are desire, adventure, pleasure, cultural reinvention and economic development. The effect, overall, is an attitude of alert, critical ambivalence with respect to a proliferating historical phenomenon. A bumpy and rewarding ride.’ — James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz

Book Surfing in the Movies

Download or read book Surfing in the Movies written by John Engle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfing has fascinated filmmakers since Thomas Edison shot footage of Waikiki beachboys in 1906. Before the 1950s surf craze, surfing showed up in travelogues or as exotic background for studio features. The arrival of Gidget (1959) on the big screen swept the sport into popular culture, but surfer-filmmakers were already featuring the day's best surfers in self-narrated two-reelers. Hollywood and independent filmmakers have produced about three dozen surf films in the last half-century, including the frothy Beach Party movies, Point Break (1991) and Chasing Mavericks (2012). From Bud Browne's earliest efforts to The Endless Summer (1966), Riding Giants (2004) and today's brilliant videos, over 1,000 surfing movies have celebrated the stoke. This first full-length study of surf movies gives critical attention to hundreds of the most important films.

Book Perry Como

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  • Author : Malcolm Macfarlane
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-05-07
  • ISBN : 1476600244
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Perry Como written by Malcolm Macfarlane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como was the first popular singer to cross over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como's career illuminates developments in the music and television business in the middle of the last century. This biography features 73 photographs, a complete discography, a listing of all television appearances, and a year by year chronology of Perry Como's life from 1912 to 2001.

Book Encyclopedia of Television Series  Pilots and Specials

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Series Pilots and Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Just Remember This

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  • Author : Colin Bratkovich
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-05-08
  • ISBN : 1483645193
  • Pages : 941 pages

Download or read book Just Remember This written by Colin Bratkovich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.

Book Billboard

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  • Release : 1967-06-03
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  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-06-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Schwann Supplementary Catalog

Download or read book Schwann Supplementary Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Library of American Phonograph Recordings

Download or read book The Complete Library of American Phonograph Recordings written by Jerry Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete library... is the first attempt... to provide the reader with a year-by-year compilation of every known record release, of every possible type, by every conceivable record label.

Book Southern California Plasterer

Download or read book Southern California Plasterer written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: