Music in Washington: Seattle and Beyond

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers, and generations of rock 'n' rollers, including the original 1950s rockabillies, 1960s "Louie Louie"-era garage bands and psychedelic acid-rock acts, 1970s punks, and 1980s new-wave artistes and heavy metal headbangers. Readers will discover how a scrappy backwoods region struggled to build the necessary infrastructure to eventually create a viable music industry and an underground scene that would ultimately earn global recognition as the home base of the 1990s grunge movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738548180
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/07/2007
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,052,944
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Musician and music historian Peter Blecha has researched the Northwest's music for over two decades. As senior curator with Seattle's Experience Music Project (EMP), he developed such exhibits as the Northwest Passage local history gallery and the Jimi Hendrix gallery. Blecha has been acknowledged as "the premier expert in his chosen field" and "Seattle's Curator of Rock & Roll" (Seattle Weekly, 1988), "the leading expert on Northwest music" (Vintage Guitar, 2000), and even "the Indiana Jones of Rock 'n' Roll" (The Rocket, 2000).

Editorial Reviews

· Seattle Times: "Blecha's book begins in a time we don't know much about and ends in an era we thought we knew everything about."

· Vintage Guitar: "Seattle is certainly known for its contributions...but the entire Pacific Northwest region has a serious musical history that has never been told until now."

· Seattle Sound: "...a fascinating glimpse at the music culture of a city steeped in song...a 101 textbook on Northwest Music History."

· Sno-Isle Libraries: "...a slice of history packed with great photographs and illustrations, a concise musical snapshot, with generous shout-outs to smaller, less successful bands."

· Seattle Times: "Even the most addicted of local music junkies will have never before seen the vast majority of the photos"

· Record Collector: "A fun and informative overview of the region which reveals the roots of the region's music scene. Five Stars!"

From the Publisher

Music In Washington, chronicles the scene in photos...it is a fascinating glimpse at the music culture of a city steeped in song, or as Blecha calls it, 'a 101 textbook on Northwest Music History'.

Seattle Sound

Another terrific book is Peter Blecha's Music In Washington. Pete's the perfect man for a book like this, as he knows the Pacific Northwest music scene inside out, and, in keeping with his prodigious research skills, goes well beyond covering the obvious.

Belltown Messenger

Seattle is certainly known for its contributions to popular music...but the entire Pacific Northwest region has a serious musical history that has never been told until now...this book establishes the region's long and storied musical past.

Vintage Guitar

Blecha's obsession with collecting old posters, photos and records can bring back the past like a slap in the face.

Puget Sound Business Journal

The music buff on your list will love this book on the Northwest music scene, which has produced myriad artists from Roaring Twenties jazz combos to Pearl Jam. Music historian Peter Blecha has assembled hundreds of rare photos.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blecha's book begins in a time we don't know much about and ends in an era we thought we knew everything about. ...Even the most addicted of local music junkies will have never before seen the vast majority of the photos.

Seattle Times