Brian Harker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4119539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Harker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Harker |
| SIGNATURE | HARKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5970-924X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Miles Davis, “Ko Ko”, and the Making of a Fallacy
Recalling his first recording session with Charlie Parker on 26 November 1945, Miles Davis said he was so nervous that Dizzy Gillespie had to step in and play the trumpet solos on “Ko Ko,” the fast final tune of the session. Others present—producer Teddy Reig, pianist Sadik Hakim (aka Argonne Thornton), and Dizzy himself—all verified this story, that it was Gillespie and not Davis who played on “Ko Ko.” Yet despite this straighforward line of tes…
Louis Armstrong
This book marks Thomas Brothers’s third inquiry into the life and music of Louis Armstrong. His first book, Louis Armstrong in his Own Words, gathered together many of Armstrong’s hitherto unpublished autobiographical writings. His second, Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, examined the first twenty-one years of Armstrong’s life as it unfolded in his beloved hometown. With this volume Brothers brings the story up to the early 1930s, covering his time…
The Trumpet of the Night
Ben Harker, ‘ “The Trumpet of the Night”: Interwar Communists on BBC Radio. This article revisits the relationship between the Communist Party and the BBC in the interwar period, arguing that Communism was a spectre that haunted the early BBC, inhabiting the vision that shaped its formation. More particularly, it argues that Communists proved an influential if uneven presence on BBC radio in the 1930s. It is about Communists on the wireless in bo…
Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia (And Vice Versa)
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Missing Dates
Theatre Workshop was a crucible of forceful personalities, and it is no surprise that the writing-up of its history became contentious. For many years The Theatre Workshop Story (1981) by company co-founder and actor Howard Goorney stood as the standard account, even though Theatre Workshop's matriarch and producer Joan Littlewood had refused to add her voice to a book that sampled opinion from most of the key players.1 (Littlewood was already pl…
The Manchester Rambler
Best known for his post-war work in theatre, radio, folk music and song writing, Ewan MacColl was born in 1915; the 1930s was a key decade in terms of his political and cultural development. It was in the 1930s that he cut his teeth as a Young Communist League activist, as an actor, and as a writer for both radio and theatre. His lifelong passion for rambling also took root in that decade. \n \nIn the 1930s rambling was a mass sport of working cl…
Louis Armstrong and the Clarinet
Confronted with Louis Armstrong's rising celebrity in the 1920s, Kid Rena, an old rival from New Orleans, reacted with jealous resentment: And because Louis [is] up North making records and running up and down like he's crazy don't mean he's that great. He is not playing cornet on that horn; he is imitating a clarinet.' For music historians the last part of this statement has a familiar ring, calling to mind the transfer of idioms in baroque musi…
Evans, Bill
The Manchester Rambler
Best known for his post-war work in theatre, radio, folk music and song writing, Ewan MacColl was born in 1915; the 1930s was a key decade in terms of his political and cultural development. It was in the 1930s that he cut his teeth as a Young Communist League activist, as an actor, and as a writer for both radio and theatre. His lifelong passion for rambling also took root in that decade. \n \nIn the 1930s rambling was a mass sport of working cl…
Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia (And Vice Versa)
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Evans, Bill
Louis Armstrong and the Clarinet
Confronted with Louis Armstrong's rising celebrity in the 1920s, Kid Rena, an old rival from New Orleans, reacted with jealous resentment: And because Louis [is] up North making records and running up and down like he's crazy don't mean he's that great. He is not playing cornet on that horn; he is imitating a clarinet.' For music historians the last part of this statement has a familiar ring, calling to mind the transfer of idioms in baroque musi…
The Manchester Rambler
Best known for his post-war work in theatre, radio, folk music and song writing, Ewan MacColl was born in 1915; the 1930s was a key decade in terms of his political and cultural development. It was in the 1930s that he cut his teeth as a Young Communist League activist, as an actor, and as a writer for both radio and theatre. His lifelong passion for rambling also took root in that decade. \n \nIn the 1930s rambling was a mass sport of working cl…
Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia (And Vice Versa)
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Missing Dates
Theatre Workshop was a crucible of forceful personalities, and it is no surprise that the writing-up of its history became contentious. For many years The Theatre Workshop Story (1981) by company co-founder and actor Howard Goorney stood as the standard account, even though Theatre Workshop's matriarch and producer Joan Littlewood had refused to add her voice to a book that sampled opinion from most of the key players.1 (Littlewood was already pl…
The Trumpet of the Night
Ben Harker, ‘ “The Trumpet of the Night”: Interwar Communists on BBC Radio. This article revisits the relationship between the Communist Party and the BBC in the interwar period, arguing that Communism was a spectre that haunted the early BBC, inhabiting the vision that shaped its formation. More particularly, it argues that Communists proved an influential if uneven presence on BBC radio in the 1930s. It is about Communists on the wireless in bo…
Louis Armstrong
This book marks Thomas Brothers’s third inquiry into the life and music of Louis Armstrong. His first book, Louis Armstrong in his Own Words, gathered together many of Armstrong’s hitherto unpublished autobiographical writings. His second, Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, examined the first twenty-one years of Armstrong’s life as it unfolded in his beloved hometown. With this volume Brothers brings the story up to the early 1930s, covering his time…
Miles Davis, “Ko Ko”, and the Making of a Fallacy
Recalling his first recording session with Charlie Parker on 26 November 1945, Miles Davis said he was so nervous that Dizzy Gillespie had to step in and play the trumpet solos on “Ko Ko,” the fast final tune of the session. Others present—producer Teddy Reig, pianist Sadik Hakim (aka Argonne Thornton), and Dizzy himself—all verified this story, that it was Gillespie and not Davis who played on “Ko Ko.” Yet despite this straighforward line of tes…
Art (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Communism (2 works)