Joe Boyd

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain (MP3-Download)

A Journey Through Global Music Ungekürzte Lesung. 600 Min.
Sprecher: Boyd, Joe

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Produktbeschreibung

Joe Boyd was part of a small group of label heads and journalists who chose 'world music' as their marketing slogan in the 1980s. They had little idea how fast and how wide those simple words would spread, the controversy it would cause, and only the vaguest idea of how far back the history went. Following the international success of his memoir White Bicycles, Boyd set out to explore the stories behind the music he had helped to populariee. His experiences as a producer working in Cuba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mali, Hungary, Spain and India had given him the skeleton of an idea, though the subject is far broader. Over the past decade he has interviewed musicians, producers and academics, travelled the globe and spent years reading, listening and writing. The resulting book, And the Roots of the Rhythm Remain, is like no other. It shows how personalities, events and politics in Havana, Lagos, Buenos Aires, Soweto, Rio and Seville are as colourful and fascinating as anything that took place in Storyville, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, r&b and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it wasn't for sounds emanating from over the horizon and below the equator.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571360031
• Artikelnr.: 70299917

Autorenporträt

Joe Boyd is a record producer and writer known for his memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s. Artists he has produced include Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, REM, Taj Mahal, Fairport Convention, Richard & Linda Thompson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Toots and the Maytals, Sandy Denny, 10,000 Maniacs, and many others across a nearly sixty-year career. After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Boyd tour-managed Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, and then served as production manager for the historic 1965 Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals. He moved to London to open the UK office of Elektra Records and started the famous UFO Club, original home to Pink Floyd and Soft Machine and center of London's psychedelic revolution. His production company, Witchseason, set the course for folk and folk-rock music in Britain. Boyd moved to Los Angeles in 1971 to work for Warner Brothers Films, supervising scores for Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange, and co-creating the documentary Jimi Hendrix. In 1979 he launched Hannibal Records, which led the way for bringing global artists to western audiences, including Cuban, Malian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Spanish artists. A gifted raconteur, he appears frequently on the BBC and other radio outlets. His music podcast, Joe Boyd's A-Z has received over a quarter of a million visits.