Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music
By: Barry Mazor
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781613740217
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Southern Music Publishing Co; Sound recording executives and producers; Biography; Sound recording industry
Description: The first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous A&R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world, a man who was crucial in discovering star musicians and establishing the genres of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music.
Notes: "An A Cappella book."

"Key recordings and published songs of Ralph Peer, 1920-1960": pages 285-289.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Something new... Built along the same lines"; title: Starting out : Independence, 1892-1919; title: Getting the music : OKeh, records, and roots, 1919-1926; title: To Victor, on to Bristol, and the making of giants, 1926-1927; title: Reaching out from the roots : southern music, 1927-1933; title: Breaking loose, branching out, starting over, 1933-1940; title: Crossing borders : the war, Latin music, and the media, 1940-1945; title: Going global : expanding, 1946-1951; title: Locking a legacy, 1952-1960; title: The roots and pop aftermath.