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The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass

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The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass book

From Jamerson to Spenner

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass

DOI link for The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass book

From Jamerson to Spenner
ByPer Elias Drabløs
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 3 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553689
Pages 252 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315553689
SubjectsArts
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Drabløs, P. (2016). The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553689

The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s and throughout the 1970s, a melismatic and inconsistent approach towards the bass role ensued, which contributed to a major change in how the electric bass was used in performance and perceived in the sonic landscape of mainstream popular music. Investigating the performance practice of the new, melodic role of the electric bass as it appeared (and disappeared) in the 1960s and 1970s, the book turns to the number one songs of the American Billboard Hot 100 charts between 1951 and 1982 as a prime source. Through interviews with players from this era, numerous transcriptions - elaborations of twenty bass related features - are presented. These are juxtaposed with a critical study of four key players, who provide the case-studies for examining the performance practice of the melodic electric bass. This highly original book will be of interest not only to bass players, but also to popular musicologists looking for a way to instigate methodological and theoretical discussions on how to develop popular music analysis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Setting the Pace

chapter 1|6 pages

Getting to the Base of Things

chapter 2|8 pages

On Popular Music

chapter 3|6 pages

The Work

part |2 pages

PART II The Melodic Electric Bass: Establishing Style as Performance

chapter 4|16 pages

The Bass in Popular Music

chapter 5|18 pages

Style and Genre

chapter 6|66 pages

Details, Features, and Idiosyncrasies

part |2 pages

Part III Toward a Performance Aesthetic

chapter 7|8 pages

Studio Bass vs. Band Bass

chapter 8|42 pages

Artists, Performance Style, and Aesthetics

chapter 9|6 pages

On the Decline?

chapter 10|4 pages

Wrapping Up

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