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    Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sights and Sounds
    Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sights and Sounds
    Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sights and Sounds
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    Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sights and Sounds

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    With 12 genres and influences, cities, and scenes, Music + Travel Worldwide guides music fans across an insightful, international stage of sounds to help plan where to go and what not to miss. Curated by experts in the industry, the book travels to Russia to experience the country’s long and inglorious outlaw culture’s sounds of chanson; heads to Buenos Aires to witness the development of cumbia, from the lavish ’90s to its latest digital incarnation; goes “underground” to check out Beijing’s ever-evolving, highly influential experimental music scene; and gets into Berlin’s private clubs that are playing the offspring of techno. Loaded with sidebars and useful trivia about musicians, discography of artists’ albums and 100 festival locations, a timeline of historical events for each of the 12 genres, and detailed maps of venue locations, this book is perfect for the travel lover or the musically obsessed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuseyon
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781938450389
    Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sights and Sounds

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      Music + Travel Worldwide - Museyon Guides

      ©Museyon, Inc. 2009-12

      Cover Photo ©fimkaJane

      Cover Illustration: ©Jillian Tamaki copyright 2009

      Published in the United States by:

      Museyon, Inc.

      20 E. 46th St. Ste. 1400

      New York, NY 10017

      Museyon is a registered trademark.

      Visit us online at www.museyon.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, except brief extracts for the purpose of review, and no part of this publication may be sold or hired without the express permission of the publisher.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      01 : JAZZ LAND

      UNITED STATES – CHICAGO

      BY PETER MARGASAK

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Influential Chicago Jazz Albums

      Art Imitating Life: The Music in Movies

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      02 : BRING THE NOISE, BRING THE PUNK

      IRELAND – DUBLIN

      BY JAMES HENDICOTT

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Albums That Influenced Celtic Punk Rock in Dublin

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      03 : NEW RAP CITY

      FRANCE – PARIS

      BY MILES MARSHALL LEWIS

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Art Imitating Life: The Music in Movies

      Albums That Influenced Muslim Hip-Hop in Paris

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      04 : TECHNO COLOR

      GERMANY – BERLIN

      BY SIOBHAN O’LEARY

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Albums That Influenced Techno in Berlin

      Art Imitating Life: The Music in Movies

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      05 : JAILHOUSE ROCK

      RUSSIA – MOSCOW + ST. PETERSBURG

      BY ALINA SIMONE

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      See it for Yourself

      Albums That Influenced Chanson in Moscow + St. Petersburg

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      06 : CLASSICAL STUDIES

      TURKEY – ISTANBUL

      BY ALEXANDRA IVANOFF

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      On Location: Istanbul Classical Music Scene

      Albums That Influenced Classical Music in Istanbul

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      07 : SWING SHIFTS

      ETHIOPIA – ADDIS ABABA

      BY MIKAEL AWAKE

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Albums That Influenced Ethiopop in Ethiopia

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      08 : PASSAGE TO INDIPOP

      INDIA – MUMBAI

      BY SHAMIK BAG

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Influential Indipop Albums in Mumbai

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      09 : EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

      CHINA – BEIJING

      BY NICK FRISCH

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Landmark Albums of Experimental Music in Beijing

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      10 : ART ROCK CONFIDENTIAL

      AUSTRALIA – MELBOURNE, SYDNEY + BRISBANE

      BY MEL CAMPBELL

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Albums That Influenced Art Rock in Australia

      See it for Yourself

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      11 : THE DIGITAL DOMAIN

      ARGENTINA – BUENOS AIRES

      BY EVE HYMAN

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      Albums That Influence Cumbia in Buenos Aires

      Building Your Own Collection

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      12 : FOLK LURE

      UNITED STATES – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

      BY JESSICA HUNDLEY

      Timeline

      Before You Go, Get in the Know

      Hometown Heroes

      See it for Yourself

      Albums That Influenced Calicountry in the LA Area

      Side Roads and Sister Cities

      Calicountry Today

      Map of Venues and City Landmarks

      INDEX + CREDITS: DISCOGRAPHY, FESTIVALS, CONTRIBUTORS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      FOREWORD

      Everybody’s done it—played air guitar in a bar, busted a move in your bedroom, or sang with power in the shower. No matter what the genre, no matter who the musician, no matter where we are, music moves us.

      It’s inspiring and infectious, and easily one of life’s greatest pleasures to obsess over. Devoted followers will stand in the rain for hours to get a ticket to their concert of choice, or drop everything if offered access to their favorite artist. The staff here at Museyon Guides know how you feel—we’ve done it ourselves.

      It’s also why we’ve created this book. Because not only do we love to listen to music—we love to learn about it. Historical origins, artists’ influences, landmark albums are what tie so many musical genres together. It’s the crossover that helps you expand your musical horizons. Sharing music has been a favorite pastime of fans long before MySpace, iTunes, and last.fm (those outlets have just helped speed up the process). So what better way to gain more musical knowledge and appreciation then to head to the cities where specific genres have staked their claim?

      We enlisted 12 writers in 12 different countries to put their knowledge and aural addiction to work as a force for good, and give you the inside skinny on the sounds and scenes of some of the coolest genres around the globe as a result. Some of these include cumbia in Buenos Aires, Celtic punk in Dublin, chanson in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and classical in Istanbul. You’ll also discover the origins of Muslim hip-hop in Paris, the Berlin clubs that keep the beats of techno pumping, which Chicago jazz musicians are keeping the genre jumping, and more.

      Because we believe that music makes the world go round—or at the least, makes it sound a lot sweeter.

      Although jazz was born in and around New Orleans, there’s little doubt that any other city was more responsible for its development and increasing popularity during the 1920s than Chicago. Boasting abundant employment opportunities, a rich culture, and the possibility for social advancement (including the chance to hold public office), Chicago came to be known as one of the most desirable and livable locations for African-Americans, who steadily migrated to the city’s South Side throughout the decade.

      As the population swelled, a vast network of nightclubs emerged, where legendary figures like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Earl Fatha Hines regularly performed and recorded. Much of the action shifted to New York as the 20s drew to a close, but Chicago remained a magnet for southern blacks. So, for the next two decades, jazz, along with blues and rhythm & blues, continued to thrive. Hard bop flourished in the 50s, engendered by tenor greats like Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Johnny Griffin, John Gilmore, and Von Freeman, and the one-and-only Sun Ra, who began formulating his magical take on Afro-Futurist big band music.

      BEFORE YOU GO, GET IN THE KNOW

      Websites:

      www.umbrellamusic.org

      www.jazzchicago.net

      www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja

      www.jazzinchicago.org

      www.now-is.org

      Publications:

      HOMETOWN HEROES

      Earl Fatha Hines

      A pianist who was one of many musicians attracted by Chicago’s bustling scene in the 20s. He stuck around, setting up shop with an influential big band at the Grand Terrace Café, where he gave Charlie Parker one of his first pro gigs and where loose after-hours jam sessions laid the foundation for bebop.

      Sun Ra (a.k.a Herman Blount)

      He burst onto the Chicago scene in the mid-50s. His group spent its early years modernizing the sound of Fletcher Henderson’s great orchestra. By the end of the decade, Ra had incorporated electric keyboards and started dressing his orchestra in wild costumes, planting the seeds of the 60s free-jazz explosion. photo: ©Tobias Akerboom

      Gene Ammons

      Got his start with Woody Herman’s band, but made his mark in a two-tenor group with

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