Stir it up : musical mixes from roots to jazz / Gene Santoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santoro, Gene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this second collection of his essays, author Santoro explores how, as music criss-crosses the globe with ever-greater speed, musicians seize what is useful to them and expand their idioms more rapidly. His subjects include: Jimi Hendrix; Paul Simon; Charles Mingus; and Thelonius Monk.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Me and Julio; Arc of a Diver; Hippie Preacher; Every Breath You Take; Buck Naked; This Year's Model; 50-Foot Queenie; Who's The Boss; Punk Repunked; Bird on a Wire; Voodoo Child; Mr. Soul; R-E-S-P-E-C-T; Blues Walkin' Like a Man; The Black Liberace; Master of Space; Chasin' the Answer; Harmolodic Philosopher; The Turtle; Portrait in Three Colors; The Bulldog; The Two of Us; Across the Great Divide; Out of the Tradition; I Have a Dream; La Cucaracha; Stir It Up; Voodoo Rock; The Man from Bahia; Afropop's Avatar; The Lion of Zimbabwe; Lilt; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52821-4

0-19-535685-3

1-4294-1556-8

OCLC:

466427922