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SUMMARY:Conversations with Our Curator - Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay\, and the Art of Rock Promotion (2025) with Paul Rappaport
DESCRIPTION:Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay\, and the Art of Rock Promotion (2025) \nPre-register here: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/BFUkN2syRVmtEFKoWt1EbA \nPAUL RAPPAPORT enjoyed a storied thirty-three-year career at Columbia Records where \nhe played a pivotal role in the careers of Bob Dylan\, Bruce Springsteen\, Pink Floyd\, The \nRolling Stones\, Billy Joel\, Journey\, Elvis Costello\, Judas Priest\, Alice in Chains\, and \nmany more. As senior vice-president of rock promotion and marketing he became regarded \nas the most renowned rock promotion man in the USA. \nGliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay And The Art Of Rock Promotion captures the magic times of the rock record business from the late 60’s through the 90’s in an entertaining “you are there” style\, featuring not only the artists but many colorful behind the scenes characters—disc jockeys\, promoters\, managers\, and record company personnel who made it all happen. \nThis dynamic memoir also reveals never-before-heard secrets of promotion and event style marketing that turned the music industry on its head. From creating the Pink Floyd airship to sword-fighting with Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden\, receiving a guitar lesson from Keith Richards\, and playing live onstage at London Arena with Pink Floyd\, it’s a book packed full of extraordinary adventures with some of the biggest names in rock. \nAdditional Bio information \nWhile at Columbia Paul also co-created and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning music television series A&E’s Live by Request and the popular live radio series The Columbia Records Radio Hour. Upon leaving Columbia Paul formed his own production company\, Tres Hombres\, and for many years wrote the ‘Backstage Access’ blog for Classics Du Jour. He was the lead guitarist in the pioneering LA punk band Mogan David & His Winos. Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay\, And The Art Of Rock Promotion is his first book. He lives in Port Washington\, New York. \nFor reviews\, media interview highlights\, and contact information go to: glidersoverhollywood.com \nConversations with our Curator” is a free\, monthly web series featuring BSCAM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Melissa Ziobro\, in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A welcome. 
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/conversations-with-our-curator-gliders-over-hollywood-airships-airplay-and-the-art-of-rock-promotion-2025-with-paul-rappaport/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Our Curator - The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music (2026) with Colin Asher
DESCRIPTION:In American popular music\, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music [W. W. Norton & Company; June 30\, 2026; $29.99 hardcover]\, Colin Asher\, author of a critically acclaimed biography of Nelson Algren\, Never a Lovely So Real\, tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians\, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century. \nOpening with folk and blues artist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter\, who was made to perform wearing prison clothes\, Asher traces the intertwined histories of music and incarceration\, from Southern prison farms of the Jim Crow era\, through the heroin-driven mid-century drug wars that villainized a generation of jazz artists\, and to our present era of mass incarceration. \nAsher shows how the suggestion of criminality has often benefited white artists\, while prosecutions often hurt Black musicians. Comparing the divergent trajectories of jazz pianist Elmo Hope with country singer Johnny Cash\, Asher examines how violent and discriminatory policing stifled Hope’s career and led to the creation of his album Sounds from Rikers Island (1963)\, while forgiveness and lenience brought us Cash’s masterpiece At San Quentin (1969). \nWith keen musical analysis and sociological insight\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL examines key themes in culture and criminal justice\, from the movement for prison reform that allowed soul musician Ike White to stage thrilling concerts while locked up and record his album Changin’ Times (1977)\, to the crushing cultural weight of mass incarceration a generation later. Closing with Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World (1995) and stories of music in prisons today\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL recounts how prisons occasionally incubate talent but more often shorten careers and distort the public’s perception of musicians and their value to society. \nAn urgent book about the ways music can affirm an individual’s sense of humanity in dehumanizing circumstances\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL writes the history of prisons into American music—a story as important as it is overlooked. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nColin Asher is the author of the critically acclaimed Never a Lovely So Real. His work has been featured in the Believer\, the Baffler\, the New Republic\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nConversations with our Curator” is a free\, monthly web series featuring BSCAM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Melissa Kozlowski\, in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A welcome.
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/conversations-with-our-curator-the-midnight-special-the-secret-prison-history-of-american-music-2026-with-colin-asher/
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