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Dancing in your head : jazz, blues, rock, and beyond / Gene Santoro.
LIBRA Special ML3477.1 .S25 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Santoro, Gene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, 1994.
- Summary:
- " ... The pieces in Dancing In Your Head examine the historical roots of today's popular music while offering insight into performers and trends that dominate the current scene."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Phonograph blues
- Hellhound on his trail
- Lift every voice and sing
- Doing it to death
- Take it to the river
- Born on the Bayou
- New Orleans's hidden treasures
- Soul queen of New Orleans
- Uptown
- Country comforts
- Androgyne with a lariat
- Even cowgirls get the blues
- Austin's Eraserhead
- The Layla sessions
- Beckology
- Rockin' in the free world
- Still alive : the Grateful Dead
- New York Lou
- On the border
- Payola guys
- Turn on your love light
- Rock vaudeville
- Good day at Black Rock
- The godfathers of rap
- Don't believe the hype
- Mr. ambience
- Them ol' Bahamas blues
- Dancing in your head
- The Blackwell project
- E.S.P.
- Rolling with the tape
- The serpent's tooth
- Prince of darkness
- Notes from underground
- Hidden histories
- Gunther Schuller's memory place
- Preservation Hall comes to Carnegie
- Nature boy
- The two Oscars
- The gypsy king
- The wizard of Waukesha
- A box of Mr. overdub
- Collier's Ellington follies
- Epitaph
- Mingus's Sancho Panza
- Rahsaan to the moon
- Space is the place
- Surfing on the keys
- Music by association
- Unplugging the enlightenment
- Child is father to the music
- In and out of the tradition
- The knitting factory
- Monk goes downtown
- The nurturer
- The Clark Kent of the electric guitar
- Downtown scenes
- Fractured fairy tales
- Caos totale
- On the street where you live
- East Village jumpcuts
- Naked city
- A star is made
- Master of tributes
- The Big Apple avant-garde.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195101235
- 9780195101232
- OCLC:
- 33481947
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