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Prince's Sign O' the Times

Release on 2004-03-312004-03-31 by Michaelangelo Matos
Prince's Sign O' the Times

Author: Michaelangelo Matos

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9780826415479

Category: Social Science

Page: 121

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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also illustrates beautifully how - if a record is great enough and lucky enough to hit you at the right time - it can change your way of looking at the world. EXCERPT The most immediately striking thing about Sign 'O' the Times is the jazzy sensibility running through it. Prince's father was a jazz musician, his mother a vocalist; he'd been a fan of chops-heavy jazz-fusion as well as rock and R&B growing up. But when Prince began recording for Warner Bros., he abjured the brass sections that dominated groups like Earth, Wind & Fire and Parliament-Funkadelic, opting instead for stacked synthesizer patterns and a spare, cold feel that markedly contrasted with lush, overarranged disco and the wild, thick underbrush of the era's giant funk ensembles; Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One, dubbed it "naked funk." Getting away from traditional R&B instrumentation is an underappreciated aspect of Prince's crossover success; Prince is also said to have actively disliked the sound of horns early in his career.
Social Science
Prince's Sign O' the Times
Language: en
Pages: 121

Prince's Sign O' the Times

Authors: Michaelangelo Matos
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-31 - Publisher: A&C Black

One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also illustrates beautifully how
This Thing Called Life
Language: en
Pages: 240

This Thing Called Life

Authors: Joseph Vogel
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

What were Prince's politics? What did he believe about God? And did he really forsake the subject-sex-that once made him the most subversive superstar of the Reagan era? In this illuminating thematic biography, Joseph Vogel explores the issues that made Prince one of the late 20th century's most unique, controversial,
Old Records Never Die
Language: en
Pages: 304

Old Records Never Die

Authors: Eric Spitznagel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-12 - Publisher: Penguin

A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the loss of… something. Freedom?
A Do Right Man
Language: en
Pages: 352

A Do Right Man

Authors: Omar Tyree
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-23 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Finally, a story of a handsome, educated, heterosexual black man and his experiences with careers and relationships in the fast-moving ‘90s! Bobby Dallas, a budding radio talk-show host, has no skeletons or kids in the closet. All that's missing is a talented, sexy, smart black woman by his side. And
The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Language: en
Pages: 1160

The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

Authors: Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-09 - Publisher: SAGE Publications

This e-only volume expands and updates the original 4-volume Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (2011), offering a wide range of new entries and new multimedia content. The entries reflect such developments as the Arab Spring that brought women's issues in the Islamic world into sharp relief, the domination of

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