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Eddie Santi Elijah Holley Vedder, the reluctant public face of the band, Though earning the band their first Parental championed a proletarian approach; drummer Advisory warning label, Murder Ballads, released in Dave Abbruzzese embraced rock-star excess; 1996, brought Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds their Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament biggest critical and commercial success, thanks anxiously navigated the minefield between. Instead in part to the award-winning single, “Where the of quitting, Vedder vented lyrically. His bandmates attacked their Wild Roses Grow,” an unlikely duet with Australian pop singer, Kylie instruments. The resulting record roiled with fury—at fame, injustice, Minogue. Closely examining each of the ten songs on the album, expectations. Vs. was thrashing testament to discomfort with Santi Elijah Holley investigates the stories behind the songs, and the celebrity, and wielded civil criticism that’s equally valid today. The numerous ways these ballads have been interpreted through the album’s very name, and the defiant sheep on its cover, were not-so- years. Murder Ballads is a tour through the evolution of traditional subtle provocations. Thanks to both its “grunge”-explosion timing folk music, and a journey into the dark secrets of American history. and undeniable quality, Vs. smashed sales records—and made Pearl Jam a global household name. But the band’s calculated response UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 144 pages proved they would neither burn out nor fade away. PB 9781501355141 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355158 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355165 • £11.36 / $13.45 UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 160 pages Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501355301 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355318 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355325 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES-33 1/3 MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES-33 Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Donna Summer's Once Upon a Square Club, 1963 Time Colin Fleming, Journalist, USA Alex Jeffery, Independent Scholar, UK This book covers Cooke’s days with the Soul Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer’s of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string double album Once Upon A Time stands out of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more as a piece that delivers on its promise of an about this complex man and the complex music he immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. was always fashioning. We’ll stop and consider how he absorbed the As well as charting the production of the album within the legendary teachings of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, as a writer and an agent Munich Machine in Germany, this book digs deep into the album’s of social change, looking at the differences between Cooke’s true rich themes and subtexts. Approaching the book from inventive identity and what various factions of his audience wanted from him, angles, the four essays within the book act as a prism connecting and how this towering soul artist came to reconcile so many disparate the reader to the classical aspirations of Eurodisco, the history of elements on a stage in Florida on a winter night in 1963—a stage that the black fairy tale and a queer knowledge that reads Summer’s extended well into the future, beyond Cooke’s own life, beyond the Cinderella tale in some surprising ways. 1960s, and into a perpetual here-and-now. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 152 pages • UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 152 pages PB 9781501355462 £9.99 / $14.95 • PB 9781501355547 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355479 £11.36 / $13.45 • ePub 9781501355554 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355486 £11.36 / $13.45 • ePdf 9781501355561 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Carole King's Tapestry Misfortune's Wealth Loren Glass, University of Iowa, USA Zach Schonfeld, Freelance Writer, USA Carole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax sound and scene. And these two elements of the Records—and then disappeared. Ghetto: album’s historic significance are closely related Misfortune’s Wealth, a soul-funk concept album insofar as the professional autonomy of the singer- primarily written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale songwriter is an expression of the freedom and independence women Warren, was too bleak, ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach of King’s generation sought as the turbulent sixties came to a close. mainstream audiences. 24-Carat Black collapsed when Stax went Aligning King’s own development from girl to woman with the larger bankrupt, and the group’s only completed album sank into cultural shift in the music industry from teen-oriented singles by girl groups obscurity. This book traces how Ghetto went from commercial flop to to albums by adult-oriented singer-songwriters, this volume situates enigmatic underground classic embraced by the hip-hop community. Tapestry both within King’s original vision as the second in a trilogy It also chronicles, in infuriating detail, how the music industry of the (preceded by Writer and followed by Music) and as a watershed in 1970s systematically exploited soul musicians and then left them musical and cultural history, challenging the male dominance of the struggling to get paid—and where 24-Carat Black fits into this music and entertainment industries and laying the groundwork for broader injustice. This is a fascinating and multilayered story about a female dominated genres such as women’s music and Riot Grrrl punk. remarkable album nearly lost to history. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 112 pages UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 152 pages PB 9781501355622 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781501355509 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355646 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePub 9781501355516 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355639 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355523 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic 2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES-33 1/3 MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES-33 Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything Heiner Müller and Heiner András Rónai, Freelance writer, Hungary & Anna Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Szemere, Central European University, Hungary Chaussee For decades, the state-run music industry in Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, USA Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I’ll Be Your Plaything is a concept By gathering historical and musical fragments album comprising at times drastically re-imagined from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the cover versions of Hungary’s most popular hits from Cold War, the East German playwright, Heiner the socialist era. The album exemplifies how rich and appealing Müller, and the West German composer, Heiner synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, Goebbels, created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama classically trained, rock and jazz musical artists collaborate.