For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers, and generations of rock 'n' rollers, including the original 1950s rockabillies, 1960s "Louie Louie"-era garage bands and psychedelic acid-rock acts, 1970s punks, and 1980s new-wave artistes and heavy metal headbangers. Readers will discover how a scrappy backwoods region struggled to build the neces... Read More
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For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers, and generations of rock 'n' rollers, including the original 1950s rockabillies, 1960s "Louie Louie"-era garage bands and psychedelic acid-rock acts, 1970s punks, and 1980s new-wave artistes and heavy metal headbangers. Readers will discover how a scrappy backwoods region struggled to build the neces... Read More
For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers, and generations of rock 'n' rollers, including the original 1950s rockabillies, 1960s "Louie Louie"-era garage bands and psychedelic acid-rock acts, 1970s punks, and 1980s new-wave artistes and heavy metal headbangers. Readers will discover how a scrappy backwoods region struggled to build the necessary infrastructure to eventually create a viable music industry and an underground scene that would ultimately earn global recognition as the home base of the 1990s grunge movement.
Details
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 7th November 2007
State: Washington
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738548180
Format: Paperback
BISACs: MUSIC / History & Criticism PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Reviews
· Seattle Times: "Blecha's book begins in a time we don't know much about and ends in an era we thought we knew everything about."
· Vintage Guitar: "Seattle is certainly known for its contributions...but the entire Pacific Northwest region has a serious musical history that has never been told until now."
· Seattle Sound: "...a fascinating glimpse at the music culture of a city steeped in song...a 101 textbook on Northwest Music History."
· Sno-Isle Libraries: "...a slice of history packed with great photographs and illustrations, a concise musical snapshot, with generous shout-outs to smaller, less successful bands."
· Seattle Times: "Even the most addicted of local music junkies will have never before seen the vast majority of the photos"
· Record Collector: "A fun and informative overview of the region which reveals the roots of the region's music scene. Five Stars!"
For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers, and generations of rock 'n' rollers, including the original 1950s rockabillies, 1960s "Louie Louie"-era garage bands and psychedelic acid-rock acts, 1970s punks, and 1980s new-wave artistes and heavy metal headbangers. Readers will discover how a scrappy backwoods region struggled to build the necessary infrastructure to eventually create a viable music industry and an underground scene that would ultimately earn global recognition as the home base of the 1990s grunge movement.
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 7th November 2007
State: Washington
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738548180
Format: Paperback
BISACs: MUSIC / History & Criticism PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
· Seattle Times: "Blecha's book begins in a time we don't know much about and ends in an era we thought we knew everything about."
· Vintage Guitar: "Seattle is certainly known for its contributions...but the entire Pacific Northwest region has a serious musical history that has never been told until now."
· Seattle Sound: "...a fascinating glimpse at the music culture of a city steeped in song...a 101 textbook on Northwest Music History."
· Sno-Isle Libraries: "...a slice of history packed with great photographs and illustrations, a concise musical snapshot, with generous shout-outs to smaller, less successful bands."
· Seattle Times: "Even the most addicted of local music junkies will have never before seen the vast majority of the photos"
· Record Collector: "A fun and informative overview of the region which reveals the roots of the region's music scene. Five Stars!"
