"Some Kind of Wonderful": The Creative Legacy of the Brill Building
2003; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3250565
ISSN1945-2349
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoThere is a curious asymmetry surrounding the recognition accorded to the Brill Building among those who document the development of popular music. On the one hand, it is one of the few buildings whose name may readily evoke a particular period or circumstance-along with, for example, the Cavern, Graceland, Studio 54, and Harlem's Apollo Theatre. On the other hand, many commentaries on popular music either overlook its significance completely by failing to mention it at all or else dismiss it as a mildly interesting historical footnote by giving it only scant attention.' Such oversights are not only puzzling but also regrettable, since they conceal a set of structures and cultures that allowed the Brill Building to become an influential source of national and international musical activity at a crucial transitional stage in the evolution of popular music. Furthermore, its significance did not simply disappear as its period of greatest activity came to an end in the mid-1960s, but has continued to be a considerable force in popular music in subsequent decades. Accounts correctly identifying the Brill Building's impact and importance, of course, have added much to our appreciation of its place in popular music.2 These, as well as other investigations, have indicated three broad trajectories-stylistic, industrial, and creativealong which the signature of the Brill Building can be distinguished.
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