Machers And Rockers: Chess Records And The Business Of Rock & Roll - Rilegato

Cohen, Rich

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ISBN 10: 039305280X ISBN 13: 9780393052800

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

Riassunto

A portrait of the producer-and-artist relationships between Leonard Chess and famous blues and rock musicians discusses Chess's Jewish origins in Russia, his establishment of Chess Records, and his aggressive acquisition and promotion of such names as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddly, and Chuck Berry. 30,000 first printing.

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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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 039305280X
• ISBN 13: 9780393052800
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 220
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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