Publisher: Castor Astral
Collection: Castor music
date: 2006
Number of pages: 189 p.
Cover: Florent Mazzoleni
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Emilien Bernard and Pierre
About the author : journalist, globetrotter, photographer, Florent Mazzoleni is a leading expert on popular culture in the southern United States and author of several books devoted to rock music.
Presentation Editor: missed stage between a poor south and rich and industrialized North, the city of Memphis hub in the heart of musical United States, quickly takes on the appearance of great culture broth. That, at Sun Studios alongside the telescoping of black blues and white country will give birth to rock. It is also in Memphis, around some mythical labels that will be written the most beautiful pages of the soul ...
This book is a thrilling ride in memory of a city crucial to the history of American popular music. A walk along the streets where the heroes are named Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Otis Redding or Sam & Dave, to name only the most famous. A trip to the roots of rock and soul music ...
Comment: trace the history of the city to the 1920s, Florent Mazzoleni tells e stories in historical events, how Memphis has built his musical identity. Politics, economics, racism and segregation, these are the issues that have shaped the history of Memphis . At the beginning of last century, that Beale Street the first theater dedicated to the black population is created. Thus began a cultural revolution galloping around this axis where the gambling halls and bars are multiplying. That's when the blues was born, music inspired by complaints from workers in cotton fields (The Memphis Blues Handy). In 1929, the stock market crash undermines the blues and musical expression the most vivid of black Memphis becomes the gospel. In the mid-1930s, Robert Johnson, through the distorting microphones, establishes the rhythm 'and blues and jazz but Blacks are already talking about rock and roll. While the mid-1940s saw coming radios dedicated to blacks who already inspired BB King and Elvis Presley, the 1960s with the advent of consumer society, marked the end of the rhythm 'and blues. And 1970 symbolize the decline of Beale Street and the Memphis sound in favor of disco.
This book was offered by Amazon at a command books. For me who loves soul music and rock, this is a gift which is perfect: Memphis, everybody has a vague idea in mind with some references related to Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, BB King and Otis Redding. Yet this city has indeed been the temple of soul and rock. She was the soul and it is with nostalgia that the author discusses the history of the latter. The regret he expresses through his descriptions show a city became a ghost town today. But the author skillfully manages to revive Beale Street with its bars, lights and music. And we Memphis would have had his golden period.
It is difficult to render correctly the density of this book as references and anecdotes abound. Florent Mazzoleni painted in great detail the evolution of soul music and its documentation work is excellent. We discover in Memphis major musical movement whose history, born amid segregation, was an invaluable cultural heritage that has inspired many new musical styles. Citing numerous artists, production companies, record labels and recording studios, the author returns precisely on the major players who participated in building the temple of black music. Reading is difficult because the book is full of references and literally for neophytes in the field, it can be complicated to navigate, but what a pleasure to finally discover what the work of specialist Florent Mazzoleni.
This book was offered by Amazon at a command books. For me who loves soul music and rock, this is a gift which is perfect: Memphis, everybody has a vague idea in mind with some references related to Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, BB King and Otis Redding. Yet this city has indeed been the temple of soul and rock. She was the soul and it is with nostalgia that the author discusses the history of the latter. The regret he expresses through his descriptions show a city became a ghost town today. But the author skillfully manages to revive Beale Street with its bars, lights and music. And we Memphis would have had his golden period.
It is difficult to render correctly the density of this book as references and anecdotes abound. Florent Mazzoleni painted in great detail the evolution of soul music and its documentation work is excellent. We discover in Memphis major musical movement whose history, born amid segregation, was an invaluable cultural heritage that has inspired many new musical styles. Citing numerous artists, production companies, record labels and recording studios, the author returns precisely on the major players who participated in building the temple of black music. Reading is difficult because the book is full of references and literally for neophytes in the field, it can be complicated to navigate, but what a pleasure to finally discover what the work of specialist Florent Mazzoleni.
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