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Machers and rockers : Chess Records and the business of rock & roll / Rich Cohen.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML405 .C63 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Rich.
- Series:
- Enterprise (New York, N.Y.)
- Enterprise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chess, Leonard, 1917-1969.
- Chess, Leonard.
- Chess, Phil, 1921-2016.
- Chess, Phil.
- Sound recording executives and producers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Sound recording executives and producers.
- Chess Records (Firm).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2004]
- Summary:
- ON THE SOUTH SIDE of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants--one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi--met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business--aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. Full of absorbing lore and animated by a deep love for popular music, "Machers and Rockers is a smash hit.
- Contents:
- Today you are a man, go get me a drink
- Jew Street
- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance
- 2120 South Michigan
- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick
- The record man pays for our sins.
- Notes:
- "Atlas Books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 039305280X
- OCLC:
- 55502857
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