Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond - Hardcover

Macleod, Dewar

 
9780813574660: Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813574668 ISBN 13: 9780813574660
Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey&;s rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. The book includes chapters on the beginnings of musical recording in Thomas Edison&;s factories in West Orange; early recording and the invention of the Victrola at Victor Records&; Camden complex; Rudy Van Gelder&;s recording studios (for Blue Note, Prestige, and other jazz labels) in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs; Zacherley and the afterschool dance television show Disc-o-Teen, broadcast from Newark in the 1960s; Bruce Springsteen&;s early years on the Jersey Shore at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park; and, the 1980s indie rock scene centered at Maxwell&;s in Hoboken. Concluding with a foray into the thriving local music scenes of today, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of the locales where New Jerseyans have gathered to rock, bop, and boogie.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dewar MacLeod is professor of history at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, specializing in popular culture, American Studies, and U.S. foreign policy, and the author of Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California, the first study of punk by a professional historian. He is singer/guitarist for Thee Volatiles, the best punk rock band in Montclair, New Jersey.
 

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Beyond its reputations as the suburban outpost to Manhattan, the industrial wasteland, the barren swamps and pinelands where gangsters dump their victims, propagator of the tacky and déclassé, pathway between far more interesting locales, New Jersey has been home to vital and exciting scenes of musical production and enjoyment.

New Jersey deserves its own musical history. The state has been home not simply to musicians who were born there but went off to make their fame in the bright lights of the big city. The state has fostered and grown local scenes of musical and historical import. Certainly, the location on the outskirts of major cities at the northern and southern ends has factored into New Jersey’s influence. But this book will explore the homegrown and nurtured musical production and consumption in New Jersey. This book will fill in the historical record, including some vibrant and important musical moments that have not received their due attention. But, even more than claiming historical space for these musical productions as worthy of inclusion in some sort of musical hall of fame, I am interested in the social history of how people produce and consume music. For that, the organizing conceit of this book is the concept of scenes.

I use the term “scene” to discuss a variety of types of historical groupings of people around music, “the contexts in which clusters of producers, musicians, and fans collectively share their common musical tastes and collectively distinguish themselves from others." Over the last few decades, scholars have explored, “… the production, performance, and reception of popular music. Work in the scenes perspective focuses on situations where performers, support facilities, and fans come together to collectively create music for their own enjoyment.” The term itself is malleable, even slippery, used as it is by participants, journalists, and scholars, often in very different ways.

 

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Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813574668
ISBN 13 
9780813574660
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
179
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