Redefining Music

How Artists Continually Change the Musical Landscape

Jacob Pellegrino

• Publisher: New Degree Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781637300909
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Historia y crítica de la música

What do legendary blues musician Robert Johnson, Black Sabbath, and Billie Eilish have in common? Much more than you might think.

Redefining Music: How Artists Continually Change the Musical Landscape will not only change how you view influential artists but reframe the way you view the evolution of music in general. Through painstaking research and a profound thirst for musical discovery across genres, author Jacob Pellegrino began exploring subtle similarities between some of the world's most influential musicians.

Tracing direct lines from Nina Simone to Jay-Z and from Bob Dylan to Kanye West, Pellegrino discovered direct evidence that the changes happening throughout music over time were not dictated by the consumer but by a handful of musical icons whose innovations shaped an entire industry.

With Redefining Music, Pellegrino not only hopes to change how the history of music is viewed but to shed light on a few of those revolutionary artists who truly redefined music for generations to come.

Appendix

Introduction:

Beckwith, Jack. “The Evolution of Music Genre Popularity.” The DataFace, September 7, 2016. https://thedataface.com/2016/09/culture/genre-lifecycles.

Statista. “Music Album Consumption US 2018, by Genre.” Accessed August 9, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/310746/share-music-album-sales-us-genre.

Robert Johnson:

Aledort, Andy. “Robert Johnson: Unlock the Guitar Mysteries of the Delta Blues Great.” Guitar World, September 11, 2019. https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/deep-unlocking-guitar-mysteries-delta-blues-great-robert-johnson.

Aquabravo77. One of the Presumed Burial Sites of Robert Johnson. 2015. Nokia Lumia 925. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_of_the_presumed_burial_sites_of_Robert_Johnson.jpg.

Bienstock, Richard. “A New Photo of Robert Johnson—the Third in Existence—Has Been Uncovered.” Guitar World, May 21, 2020. https://www.guitarworld.com/news/a-new-photo-of-robert-johnson-the-third-in-existence-has-been-uncovered.

Chilton, Martin. “Songs That Influenced the Rolling Stones: 10 Essential Blues Tracks.” uDiscoverMusic, November 8, 2020. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/songs-that-influenced-the-rolling-stones/.

Dylan, Bob. Chronicles: Volume One. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Havers, Richard. “The Devil’s Music: The Life and Legacy of Robert Johnson.” uDiscoverMusic, May 8, 2020. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/devils-music-myth-robert-johnson/.

Johnson, Robert. “Come on in My Kitchen.” Recorded November 1936. Track 3 on King of the Delta Blues Singers. Columbia, streaming.

Johnson, Robert. “Cross Road Blues.” Recorded November 1936. Track 1 on King of the Delta Blues Singers. Columbia, streaming.

Johnson, Robert. “Hellhound on My Trail.” Recorded June 1937. Track 16 on King of the Delta Blues Singers. Columbia, streaming.

Johnson, Robert. “Me and the Devil Blues.” Recorded June 1937. Track 15 on King of the Delta Blues Singers. Columbia, streaming.

Oakes, Brian, dir. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads. Netflix, 2019. https://www.netflix.com/title/80191049.

Robert Johnson Blues Foundation. “Timeline.” Accessed August 26, 2020. https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org/timeline/.

Frank Sinatra:

Arbuckle, Alex. “1921–1933: Young Sinatra.” Mashable, October 19, 2015. https://mashable.com/2015/10/19/young-frank-sinatra/.

FBI. “Frank Sinatra, Jr., Kidnapping.” Accessed September 8, 2020. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/frank-sinatra-jr-kidnapping.

The Frank Sinatra. “Frank Sinatra and Harry James, All or Nothing at All.” Accessed September 8, 2020. http://www.thefranksinatra.com/articles/frank-sinatra-and-harry-james-all-or-nothing-at-all.

Frank Sinatra. “Timeline.” Accessed September 8, 2020. http://www.sinatra.com/timeline.

Friedwald, Will. “Sinatra vs. ‘My Way’.” The Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2009. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124389543795174079.

Giles, Jeff. “How Frank Sinatra’s Thirst for Creative Freedom Led to Reprise Records.” Ultimate Classic Rock, February 13, 2016. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/reprise-records-history/.

Gonzales, Michael. “A History of Frank Sinatra’s Most Gangsta Moments.” Complex, November 17, 2011. https://www.complex.com/music/2011/11/a-history-of-frank-sinatras-most-gangsta-moments/.

Hamill, Pete. Why Sinatra Matters. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.

Kelley, Kitty. His Way. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Knox, Clement. “When US Laws Punished Men for ‘Seduction,’ Women Were the Ones Who Got Judged.” Time Magazine, February 4, 2020. https://time.com/5776805/seduction-law-history/.

Mach, Andrew. “8 Things You Didn’t Know about Frank Sinatra.” PBS News Hour, December 12, 2015. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-frank-sinatra.

Molotsky, Irvin. “F.B.I. Releases Its Sinatra File, with Tidbits Old and New.” The New York Times, December 9, 1998. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/09/us/fbi-releases-its-sinatra-file-with-tidbits-old-and-new.html.

NPR. “Bob Dylan, in New Album, Will Cover Frank Sinatra.” Accessed September 8, 2020. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/09/369684096/bob-dylan-in-new-album-will-cover-frank-sinatra.

Schwarz, Benjamin. “His Second Act.” The Atlantic, July, 2007. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/07/his-second-act/305979/.

Shapiro, Bill. “Decoding Frank Sinatra’s Phone Book.” Esquire, June 8, 2020. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a32766621/frank-sinatra-phone-book-henry-leutwyler-hi-there/.

Talese, Gay. “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire, May 14, 2016. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/.

Tawney, Raj. “Sinatra, Civil-Rights Champion: A Side of Frank Not Many People Know.” New York Daily News, December 11, 2018. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-sinatra-civil-rights-champion-20181210-story.html.

Whatley, Jack. “The Beatles Song on ‘Sgt. Pepper’ That Paul McCartney Wrote for Frank Sinatra.” Far Out Magazine, June 16, 2020. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-beatles-song-on-sgt-pepper-that-paul-mccartney-wrote-for-frank-sinatra/.

William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Zollo, Paul. “Behind the Song: ‘My Way,’ by Paul Anka.” American Songwriter, March, 2020. https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-my-way-by-paul-anka/.

The Supremes:

AllMusic. “The Primettes.” Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-primettes-mn0000415096.

AllMusic. “There’s a Place for Us: The Unreleased Album.” Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.allmusic.com/album/theres-a-place-for-us-the-unreleased-album-mw0000558869.

B...

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Robert Johnson
• Frank Sinatra
• The Supremes
• Miles Davis
• Nina Simone
• Bob Dylan
• Grateful Dead
• The Velvet Underground
• Black Sabbath
• Patti Smith
• Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Nirvana
• OutKast
• Kanye West
• Billie Eilish and FINNEAS
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix