Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond

Author:   Dewar MacLeod
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813574660


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   13 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond


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Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. The book includes chapters on the beginnings of musical recording in Thomas Edison's factories in West Orange; early recording and the invention of the Victrola at Victor Records' Camden complex; Rudy Van Gelder's recording studios (for Blue Note, Prestige, and other jazz labels) in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs; Zacherley and the afterschool dance television show Disc-o-Teen, broadcast from Newark in the 1960s; Bruce Springsteen's early years on the Jersey Shore at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park; and, the 1980s indie rock scene centered at Maxwell's in Hoboken. Concluding with a foray into the thriving local music scenes of today, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of the locales where New Jerseyans have gathered to rock, bop, and boogie.

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Author:   Dewar MacLeod
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.004kg
ISBN:  

9780813574660


ISBN 10:   0813574668
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   13 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Scenes 1. Thomas Edison and the First Recording Studio 2. The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Scene at Home 3. Jazz at the Cliffside: The Studios of Rudy Van Gelder 4. Transylvania Bandstand and Rockin’ with the Cool Ghoul 5. The Upstage Club and the Asbury Park Scene 6. “Drums Along the Hudson”: The Hoboken Sound Conclusion: Making the Scene in the Twenty-First Century Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Music History was Made Here by Tom Wilk--New Jersey Monthly The New Jersey music stories told in these pages are often punctuated by chance occurrences, dumb luck, unexpected brilliance, and a little magic. They also give us a view into the bigger patterns of cultural and historical change that are far more than a local matter. From MacLeod's 'scenes' come bigger shifts. Read this and be reminded of the ways in which popular (and sometimes unpopular!) music and the people who make it, listen to it, and dream through it do things out there on the margins that, finally, reshape the center. --Warren Zanes author of Petty: The Biography


Exploring New Jersey's Musical History by Gary Wein-- NJ Stage Music History was Made Here by Tom Wilk-- New Jersey Monthly The New Jersey music stories told in these pages are often punctuated by chance occurrences, dumb luck, unexpected brilliance, and a little magic. They also give us a view into the bigger patterns of cultural and historical change that are far more than a local matter. From MacLeod's 'scenes' come bigger shifts. Read this and be reminded of the ways in which popular (and sometimes unpopular!) music and the people who make it, listen to it, and dream through it do things out there on the margins that, finally, reshape the center. --Warren Zanes author of Petty: The Biography History of Jersey music, Jersey 'Lips, ' virtual Hudson events: recommendations to pass the time by Jim Testa https: //www.nj.com/hudson/2020/03/history-of-jersey-music-jersey-lips-virtual-hudson-events-recommendations-to-pass-the-time.html-- NJ.com


? The New Jersey music stories told in these pages are often punctuated by chance occurrences, dumb luck, unexpected brilliance, and a little magic. They also give us a view into the bigger patterns of cultural and historical change that are far more than a local matter. From MacLeod's 'scenes' come bigger shifts. Read this and be reminded of the ways in which popular (and sometimes unpopular!) music and the people who make it, listen to it, and dream through it do things out there on the margins that, finally, reshape the center.? --Warren Zanes author of Petty: The Biography


The New Jersey music stories told in these pages are often punctuated by chance occurrences, dumb luck, unexpected brilliance, and a little magic. They also give us a view into the bigger patterns of cultural and historical change that are far more than a local matter. From MacLeod's 'scenes' come bigger shifts. Read this and be reminded of the ways in which popular (and sometimes unpopular!) music and the people who make it, listen to it, and dream through it do things out there on the margins that, finally, reshape the center. --Warren Zanes author of Petty: The Biography


Author Information

Dewar MacLeod is professor of history at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, specializing in popular culture, American Studies, and U.S. foreign policy, and the author of Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California, the first study of punk by a professional historian. He is singer/guitarist for Thee Volatiles, the best punk rock band in Montclair, New Jersey.  

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