Download or read book Sounds and the City Cities of origin Heart of the country the construction of Nashville as the capital of country music written by Brett Lashua and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As both distinctive local terrain and global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. From Gillett's 'The Sound of the City' (1970) to Krims' 'Music and Urban Geography' (2007), attention to popular music has allowed various soundings of the often unfathomable aspects of urban life. This book takes as its focus the social relations produced amidst and through popular music and cities. Such a focus allows a test of theories of globalization, hybridity, consumerism, networks and transnational flows of people, cultures and musical products. Covering themes as diverse as Russian punk and African hip hop, this global collection offers a timely contribution to the advancement of popular music studies"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Sounds and the City written by B. Lashua and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.
Download or read book The Nashville Sound written by Paul Hemphill and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. The demimonde of the traditional Nashville venues (Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Robert’s Western World, and the Ryman Auditorium) and first-wave artists (Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Lefty Frizzell) are shown coming into first contact, if not conflict, with a new wave of pop-influenced and business savvy country performers (Jeannie C. “Harper Valley PTA” Riley, Johnny Ryles, and Glen Campbell) and rock performers (Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, the Byrds, and the Grateful Dead) as they took the form well beyond Music City. Originally published in 1970, The Nashville Sound shows the resulting identity crisis as a fascinating, even poignant, moment in country music and entertainment history.
Download or read book The Nashville Sound written by Joli Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean when we call a music genre like country "authentic" or "pure", or, in contrast, "commercial"? By examining the dramatic changes that occurred in country music in the 1950s and '60s, Joli Jensen explores why the concept of authenticity in country music is so crucial to so many of its fans. Anyone interested in the ways that popular culture has been shaped in response to changing times will find Jensen's incisive interpretations instructive. 20 illustrations.
Download or read book Performing Nashville written by Robert W. Fry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan. More importantly, the author discusses the larger issue of country music as a signifier of tradition suggesting that for many visitors, the music serves as a soundtrack, while Nashville serves as a performative space that permits the creation, performance, and remembrance of not only the country-music tradition, but also various individual and collective traditions and an idealized American identity. Through the theatrics of tourism, Nashville and its connection to country music are performed daily, reinforced through the sound and landscape of country music. Performing Nashville will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including tourism studies, leisure studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, folklore and anthropology.
Download or read book How Nashville Became Music City U S A written by Michael Kosser and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a Southern town become one of the most important music centers in America? This fascinating book explains it all and includes a full-length CD with 12 recordings of some of Nashville's most famous artists from the early days of Music City.
Download or read book Waking Up in Nashville written by Stephen Foehr and published by Bobcat Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music might have started its life in the untamed Appalachians, but it was Nashville that took the raw sound and dirt-farm imagery and turned it into the glossy, glitzy, glamorous pageant it is today. Now the city has become synonymous with showmanship and spectacle and is truly the heart, soul and home of country music. In Waking Up In Nashville, seasoned traveller Stephen Foehr explores the city that spawned such musical giants as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks, plunging hip-deep into its musical culture and sampling its unique heritage. Featuring colourful interviews with everyday people in the business as well as the stars, Waking Up In Nashville is the ideal travel guide for tourists and music fans alike.
Download or read book Thrilling Country Music written by Rosario Orzalli and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville is known by many as Music City, but many residents and visitors don't know why. Of course, the music scene is booming within the city and that is part of the reason. This book drops a news story bomb that shatters the youthful innocence of one of its most adored divas! The blast of emotion ripples through Nashville's Country Music capital, and it rocks the very foundation of the "Pure Country" for which it is known! Other country artists, the producers, and fans alike are in total "shock & awe" as the revelations continue to unfold daily. As the intrigue and scandal balloons exponentially, right in the thick of it all is our two favorite gossip columnists, Nick & Alison. They dig relentlessly until every juicy morsel is revealed and brought to light in this book
Download or read book The Nashville Sound written by Paul Hemphill and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1975-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Roads How Country Came to Nashville written by Brian Hinton and published by Bobcat Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinton's latest book takes readers on an enthralling journey to explain the diverse music that has come to be known as country, starting with Celtic myth and mystery, traveling to the Appalachian mountains, and taking a few unexpected turns along the way with such disparate personalities as Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley.
Download or read book Nashville s Lower Broad written by Bill Rouda and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Beale Street in Memphis and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Lower Broadway was the heart of the country music scene in Nashville, the place where locals could rub elbows with stars and impromptu jam sessions could last late into the night. But after the Grand Ole Opry moved out of the Ryman Auditorium in the 1970s, Lower Broad deteriorated into a down-and-out skid row. When the Ryman’s reopening and urban gentrification started bringing people—especially tourists—back to Lower Broad in the 1990s, locals fought to retain some of its old-time authenticity. Bill Rouda’s evocative photographs capture the return of the spirit of real country music in honky-tonks like Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge and Robert’s Western World. Here bands like the hip, retro BR549 played for tips while fans danced the night away, ignoring the shadows of the newly constructed convention center and the glare of Planet Hollywood. Rouda’s photographs also capture legends like Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson and attest to the true heart and soul of country music.
Download or read book Nashville Music Before Country written by Tim Sharp and published by Arcadia Publishing Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville is a name synonymous with music. Years before the first radio broadcast of country music from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, music and publishing were central to Nashville's self-identity. Thousands of songs flooded into the Cumberland and Tennessee River valleys from Southern Appalachia, sung by folk performers. These songs became the foundation for the folk-hymn traditions that grew throughout Tennessee. Into this stream flowed a body of African American spirituals, gospel, and minstrel songs. The arrival of trained German musicians brought classical styles to this gathering stream of musical confluences. These musicians found a home in the academies and businesses of Nashville. Nashville Music before Country is the story of how music merged with education, publication, entertainment, and distribution to set the stage for a unique musical metropolis. The images for Nashville Music before Country come from private collections as well as public libraries and archives.
Download or read book Super Cities Nashville written by Mark Shulman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the coolest places are right outside your front door. Learning about Nashville's interesting and unique culture has never been so super fun! Did you know Nashville is nicknamed Music City? Or that the famous musician Bob Dylan recorded an album here? Have you ever wanted to visit the Parthenon without traveling to Greece? From the Belle Mead Mansion to the Tomato Art Fest, Super Cities!: Nashville covers it all and is sure to engage any reader with fun facts about the history, culture, and people who make this place great. Attend a show at the Grand Ole Opry and catch a Nashville Predators game, all right here. Take a peek inside to learn more about the impressive, unusual, super history of the Music City!
Download or read book Country Music Broke My Brain written by Gerry House and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville is filled with stars and lovers and writers and dreamers. Nashville is also teeming with lunatics and grifters and dip wads and moochers. Gerry House fits easily into at least half of those categories. Someone would probably have to be brain-damaged or really damn talented to try to entertain professional entertainers over a decades-long radio show in Music City, USA. Fortunately, House is little of both. Host of the nationally syndicated, top-rated morning show, “Gerry House & The Foundation" for more than 25 years, he has won virtually every broadcasting award there is including a place in the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Gerry also spent that time deep inside the songwriting and recording world in Nashville. In Country Music Broke My Brain, Gerry tells his stories from the other side of the microphone. He reveals never-aired, never-before published conversations with country music's biggest names—Johnny Cash, Brad Paisley, and Reba McEntire to name a few—and leaves you with his own crazy antics that will either have you laughing or shaking your head in disbelief. With exclusive celebrity stories, humorous trivia and anecdotes, and broadcasting wisdom, this book is a treat for country music fans or for anyone who wants a good laugh.
Download or read book Now You Know Nashville 2nd Edition written by Mason Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville, TN is the "It" city for travelers today and this is the ultimate guide for all things Nashville! Celebrity houses, historical icons, studios, filming locations, and foodie spots are just a few of the topics laid out in this pop culture guide to Music City. A must-have for any Nashville traveler! Now in it's 2nd edition...
Download or read book Now You Know Nashville written by Mason Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now You Know Nashville takes you on a tour of the iconic structures of the city such as the famous Ryman auditorium, the WSM "diamond" tower, and the Batman building, RCA Studio B, the Hermitage Hotel, to name a very few, along with their Pop Culture significance! Features all the houses and locations from ABC's hit TV show, Nashville! See Rayna & Teddy's mansion; the houses of Scarlett, Gunnar, and Deacon; the local production studios; and all the local hotspots featured in the show! Includes a guide to the world-famous studios of Nashville, where hundreds of your favorite songs were recorded. The specific houses and locations where dozens of your Favorite Hit songs were written, along with the "stories behind the songs" including "Chattahoochie," "The Dance," "I will always love you," "Somewhere With You," "I Love The Way You Love Me," "Crazy," "Only The Wind' and many, many more! Exact filming locations from the ABC hit show, Nashville, as well as the Matrix, Hannah Montana, Walk The Line, the Ernest movies and many others. dozen of celebrity homes like Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson, Al Gore, Reese Witherspoon, Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, and Sheryl Crow. The seedy details of Nashville's dark side with sites of infamy such as the worst train wreck in the United States history, the secrets of Printers Alley, the sites of infamous murders, and even the peephole that launched Erin Andrews career. Famous graves of dozens of celebrities and their locations. Famous food and restaurant locations that give Nashville it's own unique flavor and culinary history! The history of Nashville from the cave where Timothy Demonbreun hid from Indians-- to monumental Civil War locations-- to sites instrumental to the founding and development of Music Row-- and even the first location that Jimi Hendrix used the "Jimi"!-- plus hundreds more!-- Taken from Amazon.com August 7, 2014.
Download or read book Tennessee Strings written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces the vital role played by Tennessee and its musicians in the development of this unique American art form.
