Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music - Hardcover

Menconi, David

 
9781469674995: Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1469674998 ISBN 13: 9781469674995
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must encompass the work of artists as diverse as Alice Gerard and Alison Krauss, George Thorogood and Sun Ra, Bela Fleck and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the Blake Babies and Billy Strings. What do all these artists and music styles have in common? The answer is a record label born in the wake of the American folk revival and 1960s movement politics, formed around the eclectic tastes and audacious ideals of three recent college grads who lived, listened, and worked together. The answer is Rounder Records.

For more than fifty years, Rounder has been the world's leading label for folk music of all kinds. David Menconi's book is the label's definitive history, drawing on previously untapped archives and extensive interviews with artists, Rounder staff, and founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, and Bill Nowlin. Rounder's founders blended ingenuity and independence with serendipity and an unfailing belief in the small-d democratic power of music to connect and inspire people, forging creative partnerships that resulted in one of the most eclectic and creative catalogs in the history of recorded music. Placing Rounder in the company of similarly influential labels like Stax, Motown, and Blue Note, this story is destined to delight anyone who cares about the place of music in American culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The 2019 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate, David Menconi was a staff writer at the Raleigh News & Observer for 28 years. He has also written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin and New York Times.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469674998
ISBN 13 
9781469674995
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
196
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