Description
Book SynopsisCaptures a transitional moment in modern music history, a time when jazz and rock intermingled to create a new, often controversial, genre. At the forefront of that style was Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock's foray into the fusion jazz market. It was also the first jazz album to go platinum, and the best-selling jazz record of all time to that point.
Trade Review... [a] very readable dissection of all the different ways in which Herbie Hancock's 1973 album
Head Hunters broke the mould. . . .An entertaining and thought-provoking read.-
Jazzwise Magazine;
""... as gripping and readable as the album is unapologetically popular and danceable, this book will be gobbled up like a musicological mystery novel that incites and invites readers to listen again and rethink 'who-done-it' and how in the jazz history we thought we knew.""- Sherrie Tucker, author of
Swing Shift: ""All-Girl"" Bands of the 1940s;
""Steven Pond produces his own 'fusion' with a seamless blend of ethnographic and historical research. This book will fascinate scholars and fans of jazz and popular music, as well as those interested in the emerging interdisciplinary field of sound studies, and in the broader relationship between genre and identity in contemporary music.""- David Brackett, author of
Interpreting Popular Music, and
The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates;
""An important and timely book. Pond's work reflects the insight an informed researcher and skilled performer can bring to the study of music. In exploring varied dimensions-sonic, cultural, technological, economic-he renders the tale in all its complexity, without sacrificing clarity of expression. This is the kind of book jazz scholarship has long needed.""- Travis Jackson, Associate Professor of American Music, University of Chicago
