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Crowd control: how audiences make music - On Political Books
One morning in 1998, I drove to a funeral home in Chicago's South Side to watch a crowd of aging bluesmen pay final tribute to harmonica great Junior ......(Continue Reading) "They cert'ly sound good to me": sheet music, Southern vaudeville, and the commercial ascendancy of the blues - New Perspectives on the Blues
Blues music began with performers in black Southern vaudeville late in the nineteenth century. These self-taught singers and musicians passed their unique ......(Continue Reading)Track Sheet
NORTHWEST Lloyd Maines visited Studio 880 (Oakland) to produce tracks for S.F. band The Waybacks with engineer Bruce Kaphan. Blackalicious buried themselves in Studio C to compile their upcoming...(Continue Reading)The Latin Real Book: Salsa, Brazilian Music, Latin Jazz
Sher Music Co./Chuck Sher Petaluma, CA. 1997 580 pages ISBN 1-8832117-05-9 The latest addition to Sher Music's excellent catalog of music books is The ......(Continue Reading)Keeping the beat: one of the first black students of the All-City Performing Groups is giving back what he learned through the program
One Saturday morning in March, a group of black and Latino students dressed in baggy jeans and sports shirts were standing in a semi-circle on the second ......(Continue Reading)
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