This very musical biography is the classical blueprint for a music biopic or future TV series, although this has not yet been realized by the film industry. Mazor’s extensive research project on music marketer and Okeh Records producer Ralph Peer is the exciting story of a young clerk working both in shipping and in his […]
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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning (2015)
The history of modern music was forever altered when in a few years after 1925 talent scouts and engineers were busy recording regional musicians and their styles, like hula, fado, beguine, calypso, marabi and many other musics. What decades later was repacked, remastered and resold as “folk,” and “roots” music, actually was local popular music; […]