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Author Mazor, Barry, author.

Title Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music / Barry Mazor.

Publication Info. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Front Cover; Front Flip; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: "Something New-Built Along the Same Lines"; 1. Starting Out: Independence, 1892-1919; 2. Getting the Music: Okeh, Records, and Roots, 1919-1926; 3. To Victor, On to Bristol, and the Making of Giants, 1926-1927; 4. Reaching Out from the Roots: Southern Music, 1927-1933; 5. Breaking Loose, Branching Out, Starting Over, 1933-1940; 6. Crossing Borders: The War, Latin Music, and the Media, 1940-1945; 7. Going Global: Expansion, 1946-1951; 8. Locking a Legacy, 1952-1960; 9. The Roots and Pop Aftermath.
Appendix: Key Recordings and Published Songs of Ralph Peer, 1920-1960Acknowledgments; Notes and Sources; Index; Back Flip; Back Cover.
Summary This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous-even revolutionary-A & R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world. It is the story of the life and 50-year career of the man who was crucial in discovering star musicians and establishing the genres of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music. It tracks Peer's role in such groundbreaking episodes as recording the record that sparked the blues craze, the first country recording sessions with Fiddlin' John Carson, his discovery of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carte.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Peer, Ralph Sylvester, 1892-1960.
Peer, Ralph Sylvester, 1892-1960.
Sound recording executives and producers -- United States -- Biography.
Sound recording executives and producers.
United States.
Sound recording industry -- United States -- Biography.
Sound recording industry.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Mazor, Barry. Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2015] 9781613740217 (DLC) 2014029263 (OCoLC)877371623
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