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PublisherIndependently Published
ISBN-101724113313
ISBN-139781724113313
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038456987
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Number of Pages42 Pages
Publication NameEmmett Miller: an Obscure Minstrel Yodeler Who Changed Music Forever
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
SubjectEssays
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaEducation
AuthorJack Norton
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisOne of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of American music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most part, today he is all but forgotten. Emmett Miller left many legacies which influenced the American musical landscape for generations. Certainly his singing style - the odd nasal pitch tone, along with the breaking of lines and bars in a song to a high yodel-like yelp - has been imitated by scores of singers since Miller first waxed his signature style to record in 1924. Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, Lefty Fritzell, the Rhythm Wreckers, Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie, Howlin' Wolf, Leon Redbone and Bob Dylan all have been influenced by Miller's one-of-a-kind vocal abilities. Of equal importance was Miller's visionary fusion of blues and jazz, country and swing, black and white, comedy and crooning. Whether he knew what he was doing at the time or not, Miller almost single-handedly tore down the strict boundaries of musical ideas of the era. Here was a young, white, Christian man from the south, singing hot-jazz and black music in the north. Performing as a blackface with some of the most influential jazz musicians of all time (Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden, and more). He created an entirely new style of country: pop. Country which swung. Country that was equally parts white and black, urban and rural. Country that was slurred through whiskey, girls, the road, and came out as the earliest forms of beatnik jive. Listening to Miller's music today, one can hear the startling sound of a man perfectly in sync with the present: he's influenced by the past, while he anticipated what was coming just around the bend. For fans of music history, musicology, Americana, country music, hillbilly, minstrelsy and vaudeville., One of the strangest, most obscure and intriguing stories from the last century of popular music is that of Emmett Miller. A classic tale of rags to riches (and back to rags), Miller helped define the popular music of the last seventy-five years, and for the most part, today he is all but forgotten. Emmett Miller left many legacies which influenced the American musical landscape for generations. Certainly his singing style - the odd nasal pitch tone, along with the breaking of lines and bars in a song to a high yodel-like yelp - has been imitated by scores of singers since Miller first waxed his signature style to record in 1924. Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, Left Fritzell, the Rhythm Wreckers, Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie, Howlin' Wolf and Bob Dylan all have been influenced by Miller's one-of-a-kind vocal abilities. Of equal importance was Miller's visionary fusion of blues and jazz, country and swing, black and white, comedy and crooning. Whether he knew what he was doing at the time or not, Miller almost single-handedly tore down the strict boundaries of musical ideas of the era. Here was a young, white, Christian man from the south, singing hot-jazz and black music in the north. Performing as a blackface with some of the most influential jazz musicians of all time (Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden and more). He created an entirely new style of country: pop. Country which swung. Country that was equally parts white and black, urban and rural. Country that was slurred through whiskey, girls, the road and came out as the earliest forms of beatnik jive. Listening to Miller's music today, one can hear the startling sound of a man perfectly in sync with the present: he's influenced by the past, while he anticipated what was coming just around the bend. Emmett Miller is a symbol. An image of all that is America: the great melting pot of the world. Only here, in this strange place, and during the strange times of the last century, could Miller have been created. Equally parts black and white, high and low, down and up, Emmett Miller rode the historical wave upon a bouncing ball: he held onto all he knew how to be - himself. And he rode that ball into the twilight of the setting sun. In the end, all we really know about Emmett Miller is that he lived on the road, he died by the road, and he was the road for all those that have come since.
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- Feb 08, 2021
Sums it up well.
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