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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932: New
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Date
- 2023-03-01
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 9780807179147
- Book Title
- Rise and Fall of Paramount Records : a Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Blues, Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking the resources and the interest to compete for top talent, Paramount?s earliest recordings gained little foothold with the listening public. On the threshold of bankruptcy, the label embarked on a new business plan: selling the music of Black artists to Black audiences. It was a wildly successful move, with Paramount eventually garnering many of the biggest-selling titles in the ?race records? era. Inadvertently, the label accomplished what others could not, making blues, jazz, and folk music performed by Black artists a popular and profitable genre. Paramount featured a deep roster of legendary performers, including Louis Armstrong, Charley Patton, Ethel Waters, Son House, Fletcher Henderson, Skip James, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, King Oliver, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Johnny Dodds, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. Scott Blackwood?s The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records is the story of happenstance. But it is also a tale about the sheer force of the Great Migration and the legacy of the music etched into the shellacked grooves of a 78 rpm record. With Paramount Records, Black America found its voice. Through creative nonfiction, Blackwood brings to life the gifted artists and record producers who used Paramount to revolutionize American music. Felled by the Great Depression, the label stopped recording in 1932, leaving a legacy of sound pressed into cheap 78s that is among the most treasured and influential in American history.
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Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807179140
ISBN-13
9780807179147
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26057258286
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rise and Fall of Paramount Records : a Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Blues, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Music
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3792.P35b53 2023
Lccn
2022-032166
Dewey Decimal
338.7/617816430973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220720
Illustrated
Yes
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