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Making the Scene in the Garden State : Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond / Dewar MacLeod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLeod, Dewar, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--New Jersey--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Sound recording industry--New Jersey--History.
- Sound recording industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey’s rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. The book includes chapters on the beginnings of musical recording in Thomas Edison’s factories in West Orange; early recording and the invention of the Victrola at Victor Records’ Camden complex; Rudy Van Gelder’s recording studios (for Blue Note, Prestige, and other jazz labels) in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs; Zacherley and the afterschool dance television show Disc-o-Teen, broadcast from Newark in the 1960s; Bruce Springsteen’s early years on the Jersey Shore at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park; and, the 1980s indie rock scene centered at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Concluding with a foray into the thriving local music scenes of today, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of the locales where New Jerseyans have gathered to rock, bop, and boogie.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Making Scenes
- 1 Thomas Edison and the First Recording Studio
- 2 The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Scene at Home
- 3 Jazz at the Cliffside: The Studios of Rudy Van Gelder
- 4 Transylvania Bandstand and Rockin’ with the Cool Ghoul
- 5 The Upstage Club and the Asbury Park Scene
- 6 “Drums Along the Hudson”: The Hoboken Sound
- Conclusion: Making the Scene in the Twenty-First Century
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780813574684
- 0813574684
- 9780813574691
- 0813574692
- OCLC:
- 1130308289
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