music history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2021
  

  Phil Schaap, Grammy-Winning Jazz D.J. and Historian, Dies at 70

  “They say I’m a history teacher,” he said in a video interview for the National Endowment for the Arts, which this year named him a Jazz Master, the country’s highest official honor for a living jazz figure, but he viewed his role differently. “I teach listening.” 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/24/2020
  

  How Wagner Shaped Hollywood

  Music historian Daniel Ira Goldmark counts more than a hundred Warner Bros. cartoons with Wagner on their soundtracks.

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/16/2020
  

  Documentary 'Other Music' Chronicles A Record Store Navigating A Shifting Industry

  A new documentary tells the story of Other Music, a now-closed record store in New York City.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/27/20
  

  How Minneapolis made Prince

  by Rashad Shabazz

  The history of Minneapolis and why, simply put, Prince would not sound like Prince without Minneapolis.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Altamont: After the Bleeding Stopped

  by D. M. Giangreco

  While many features on Altamont’s 50th anniversary will focus on the violence, I’ll always remember what happened after the bleeding stopped: the chaos of broken promises and what the willing volunteers--- unsupported and unknown --- ultimately accomplished there.

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• 12/22/19
  

  We are living in the most practical period of music listening

  by Paige Morse

  Music listeners must understand the music industry's past to appreciate the convenience and affordability of today's streaming platforms.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

  by Gabrielle Cornish

  Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/30/19
  

  How a music genre known as black metal came to be related to church burnings

  by Jason C. Bivins

  When three historically African American churches were burned downrecently in southern Louisiana, it evoked memories of the violence of the civil rights era.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/19
  

  The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust

  For a while during his captivity, jazz kept Eric Vogel, a Jewish Czech trumpeter, useful to the Nazis—and therefore alive.

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• 4/2/19
  

  The Temptations: Born in the Turmoil of the 1960s and Still Conquering

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, is out and out hit, and a great window on entertainment history.

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• 2/11/19
  

  The British, with Guitars and Drums, Invade America in 1963

  by Bruce Chadwick

  As the song goes, rock and roll is here to stay.

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• SOURCE: The Saturday Evening Post
  2-6-14
  

  The Birth of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

  George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman introduced jazz to a classical audience.

• SOURCE: Wisconsin State Journal
  4-18-13
  

  A new musical legacy for Frank Lloyd Wright's father, courtesy of music historian

  One thing that’s not disputed about Frank Lloyd Wright’s father is this: He loved music.Long portrayed as a distant parent and meager breadwinner who abandoned the family when Frank was 17, the senior Wright emerges as a much different character — a cultured and exuberantly creative man who lived a life in music — in the new CD, “The Music of William C. Wright.”Produced by Oak Park, Ill., music historian and architecture fan David Patterson, the 72-minute CD features pieces composed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s father in a musical career that spanned the second half of the 19th century. Many of those years were spent in Wisconsin, including Madison and Frank’s birthplace of Richland Center...