Rockin' Out offers a ground-breaking,comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States and Canada. Accessibly written, this text is organized chronologically and thematically around particular genres/styles of music and addresses such dimensions as race, class, gender, ethnicity, technology, copyright and the structure of the music industry as they affected the development of the music. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself as well as how it is produced and marketed. The Canadian edition includes Canadian artists such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Rush, Avril Lavigne, Great Big Sea, Feist, Jully Black, and more!

Rockin' Out, Canadian Edition

Arts & Photography

Garofalo, Reebee

Bowman, Rob

Music

Pearson Education Canada

The Malaco story is one of the greatest, and certainly the most improbable, of any independent record company in the history of American music. Record industry wisdom would suggest that starting a label in Jackson, Mississippi was a losing proposition from the word go. Yet, that is exactly what Tommy Couch, Sr., Mitchell Malouf and Wolf Stephenson decided to do in 1967. Fifty years later, Malaco is the largest and most important black gospel label in the world. In the 1980s it was also the primary exponent of the soul blues genre that then ruled southern black radio. By that point Louisiana record man Stewart Madison had bought out Mitchell Malouf. A decade later Tommy Couch Jr. joined the business, becoming president in 2012. While many record companies struggled with the digital revolution, having acquired Savoy, Onyx, Apollo and Atlanta International Records over the years Malaco had amassed a catalogue that provided the basis for streaming, sampling and licensing opportunities galore. A half century since its humble beginnings, Malaco remains the longest standing fully independent record company in American music history. The tiny upstart label that was affectionately dubbed The Last Soul Company in the 1980s has managed to outlast Motown, Atlantic, Chess, Stax, Sun, Ace and all the rest of the great indi labels that recorded and marketed the majority of great African American music. Based on dozens of interviews, in The Last Soul Company Grammy Award winning writer Rob Bowman weaves together the tale of a half century of Malaco soul and gospel productions, discussing the careers and the hit records of such seminal Malaco-based artists as Bobby Blue Bland, Z.Z. Hill, Johnnie Taylor, the Jackson Southernaires, the Mississippi Mass Choir, the Caravans, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, LaShun Pace, Rev. F.C. Barnes and dozens of others. In the process, Bowman tells the story of a record company that, against all odds, continues to make black music primarily for black people. About the author: Rob Bowman has been writing professionally about rhythm and blues, rock, country, jazz and gospel for close to 50 years. Nominated for six Grammy Awards, in 1996 Bowman won the Grammy in the Best Album Notes category for a 47,000 word monograph he penned to accompany a 10-CD box set that he also co-produced, The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Fantasy Records). In total Bowman has produced, compiled and/or written liner notes for over 250 compact disc sets. He is also the author of Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records (Schirmer Books), winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor and ARSC Awards for Excellence in Music Research. In 2013 Soulsville U.S.A. was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. On top of his popular press and liner note work, Bowman played a seminal role in the founding and creation of The Stax Museum of American Soul Music (opened in Memphis in 2003), wrote the four-part television documentary series The Industry, has co-produced, conducted interviews and research for numerous music documentaries and has helped pioneer the study and teaching of popular music in the world of academia. In the past few years Bowman has worked on box sets for Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Jackie Shane, synth pioneer John Mills-Cockell and Rush. He is also slated to work for the United Nations on a film on Antiguan calypso for the country s national museum. His latest book, The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History, was co-authored with Daniel Tate. A tenured professor at York University in Toronto, Bowman regularly lectures on popular music around the world. In February 2020, Bowman was honored with the Keeping the Blues Alive Lifetime Achievement Award by the Blues Foundation.

The Last Soul Company: The Malaco Records Story

Humor & Entertainment

Malaco Inc

Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Provides the first history of the groundbreaking label.

Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

Schirmer Trade Books

Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Soulsville, U.S.A. provides the first history of the groundbreaking label along with compelling biographies of the promoters, producers, and performers who made and sold the music. Over 45 photos. Winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Winner of the ARSC Award for Best Research in Record Labels.

MUSIC SALES

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<li>Covers 150 years of Toronto concerts from vaudeville and early jazz, prog rock and soul, to punk, hip hop, and techno</li> <li>Will appeal to live music fans, particularly those who attended concerts in the 70s, 80s, and 90s</li> <li>Daniel Tate’s Instagram account, The Flyer Vault, has over nine thousand followers</li> <li>Rob Bowman is an ethnomusicologist, a Grammy Award–winning liner-note writer, and former director of York University's graduate music program</li> <li>The Flyer Vault collection has been covered by Vice, NOW, and the Globe and Mail</li> </ul>

The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History

Tate, Daniel

Dundurn Press

Beck"s Futures

History & Criticism

Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA)

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