The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass: From Jamerson to Spenner

by Per Elias Drabløs

Book Overview

The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument.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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879638
• ISBN13: 9780367879631
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"