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A shot in the dark : making records in Nashville, 1945-1955 / Martin Hawkins.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3790 .H387 2006
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 02368 1 disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sound recording industry--Tennessee--Nashville--History.
- Sound recording industry.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- History.
- Tennessee--Nashville.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 318 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 x 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press & Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Book Plus CD. Martin Hawkins, co-author of the landmark Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock & Roll, describes the formation and the activities of local, independent recording companies in Nashville in the decade following World War II--the heyday of regional companies, before rock & roll and the eventual internationalization of the music business. These labels and their owners evolved from the local jukebox and amusements business and often featured truly local performers. They sometimes aspired to national status--and occasionally they achieved it. The book also describes the infrastructure they worked within and the personal stories of the main label owners and their performers. Finally, it examines the part the labels played in the emergence of Nashville as Music City USA. The accompanying 20-song CD is the soundtrack to this fascinating story.
- Contents:
- Walking down Broad Street
- The beginning: Bullet Records
- Standing in the safety zone: gospel on Bullet
- Nashville jumps: Bullet and the blues
- The musical miracle: Bullet goes pop
- Music for the world: Bullet's Nashville competition
- Bullet reloaded: 1949-1952
- Bulleit Enterprises, Inc.
- Tennessee jamboree
- Republic: the eagle flies
- Boogie woogie jockeys
- Dot Records: raising the standard
- The record center of the South: Nashboro and Excello
- Broke waiting for a break: the small labels
- Publishing folk tunes Fred Rose and Hickory Records
- Music City USA
- The end of the beginning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and indexes.
- Includes discography: pages 253-300.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0826515320
- 0826515339
- 9780826515339
- 9780826515322
- OCLC:
- 63297838
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