The world of soul : Black America's contribution to the pop music scene / by Arnold Shaw.
| Author/creator | Shaw, Arnold |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Cowles Book Company, Inc., ©1970. |
| Description | xiii, 306 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Soul is -- Part I. Blues. Country blues and bottleneck bluesmen. Blind Lemon Jefferson ; Mance Lipscomb ; Speckled Red ; Sleepy John Estes ; Skip James ; Leadbelly ; Big Bill Broonzy ; Mississippi John Hurt ; Son House ; Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee ; Josh White ; Lightnin' Hopkins ; John Lee Hooker ; Robert Johnson -- Classic blues. Mamie Smith ; Bessie Smith ; Ma Rainey ; Ida Cox ; Bertha "Chippie" Hill -- The blues is -- The jazz singers. Louis Armstrong ; Billie Holiday ; Cab Calloway ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Sarah Vaughan ; Carmen McRae ; Nancy Wilson ; Fats Waller -- Black pop and the oreo singers. Leroy Carr ; Ethel Waters ; Billy Eckstine ; Nat "King" Cole ; Al Hibbler ; Joe Williams ; Sammy Davis, Jr. ; Lena Horne ; Damita Jo ; Della Reese ; Dinah Washington ; Fats Domino ; Lloyd Price ; Roy Hamilton ; Mills Brothers ; Ink Spots ; The Platters ; Johnny Mathis ; Harry Belafonte ; Brook Benton ; Jackie Wilson ; Chubby Checker ; Dionne Warwick ; Lou Rawls ; O. C. Smith ; Sam Cooke ; The fifth dimension ; The impressions -- Part II. Rhythm-and-blues. Rhythm and blues is -- West Coast R & B record companies. Specialty ; Peacock/Duke ; Aladdin ; Modern ; Black and white ; Swing time ; Arhoolie -- Midwest R & B record giants. Chess/Check ; Vee Jay ; King/Federal ; Recording artists: Howlin' Wolf ; Bo Diddley ; Etta James ; Gladys Knight and the Pips ; Jimmy Reed ; Jerry Butler ; Bullmoose Jackson ; Wynonie Harris ; The Dominoes ; Hank Ballard and the Midnighters ; Earl Bostic ; Boyd Bennett ; Bill Doggett ; Ivory Joe Hunter ; Memphis Slim ; Little Willie John -- East Coast R & B record scene. Apollo Theatre ; Apollo Records ; De Luxe ; Manor ; National ; Jubilee ; Savoy ; Herald ; Rama/Gee ; Cameo/Parkway ; Scepter ; Recording artists: The Larks ; Savannah Churchill ; The Ravens ; The Orioles ; Johnny Otis ; Little Esther ; Chuck Willis ; Faye Adams ; Frankie Lymon and the Teen Agers ; The Shirelles ; Isley Brothers -- The foremost rhythm-and-bluesmen. Muddy Waters ; Chuck Berry ; Little Richard ; B. B. King -- The big three of R & B. Motown: the Detroit sound ; Berry Gordy, Jr. ; Diana Ross and The Supremes ; Smokey Robinson and The Miracles ; The Temptations ; The Marvelettes ; Martha Reeves and the Vandellas ; The Four Tops ; Mary Wells ; Stevie Wonder ; Holland-Dozier-Holland -- Stax. The Memphis sound. Booker T. and the M.G.'s ; Rufus Thomas ; Carla Thomas ; Isaac Hayes and Dave Porter ; Sam & Dave ; Johnnie Taylor ; Eddie Floyd ; Albert King ; The Staple Singers ; Sun Records ; American Recording Studios ; Hi Records -- Atlantic: the Harlem sound. Ruth Brown ; The Clovers ; The Drifters ; The Coasters ; The Chords ; Big Joe Turner ; LaVern Baker ; Solomon Burke ; Barbara Lewis ; Don Covay ; Wilson Pickett ; Percy Sledge ; Arthur Conley ; Leiber and Stoller -- Modern bluesmen. Johnny Shines ; J. B. Hutto ; Eddie Taylor ; Floyd Jones ; Junior Wells ; Buddy Guy ; James Cotton ; Otis Rush ; Otis Spann ; Magic Sam ; John Littlejohn ; Freddy King ; Junior Parker ; Ike and Tina Turner ; Sly & the Family Stone ; Chambers Brothers ; Taj Mahal -- Part III. Soul. Gospel music and soul. Georgia Tom ; Clara Ward Singers ; Sister Rosetta Tharpe ; Marie Knight ; Mahalia Jackson ; James Cleveland -- Nina Simone: the rage and fury -- James Brown: the frenzy and the sex -- Jimi Hendrix: reactive noise and the big nasty -- Otis Redding: tough and soulfully tender -- Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul -- Ray Charles: soul supreme -- Of chitlins, blue-eyed soul, and black capitalists. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 295-300) and index. |
| LCCN | 73090064 |
| ISBN | 0402122917 |
| Stock number | 6.95 |