Blues For America
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Long Lost Blues
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Author : Peter C. Muir
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010
Long Lost Blues written by Peter C. Muir and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive examination of the early blues industry and the music it produced
Blues People
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Author : Amiri Baraka
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1980-08-11
Blues People written by Amiri Baraka and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-08-11 with Music categories.
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
Blues For America
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Author : Doug Dowd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Blues For America written by Doug Dowd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Blues for America is a scholar's deft survey of everything that happened between the 1920s and the 1990s-depressions, repressions, segregation, and wars-and the resistance that arose to each in turn, related with surprising wit and an amazingly gracious turn of phrase. And by weaving in bits of autobiography, Dowd has given us much more." --Barbara Ehrenreich
Right On
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Author : Michael Haralambos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Right On written by Michael Haralambos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Chasing The Blues
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Author : Josephine Matyas
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-09-15
Chasing The Blues written by Josephine Matyas and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-15 with Music categories.
Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song. Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delta is key to understanding how the blues were shaped. Over time, the Delta blues have touched virtually every form of popular music (rock and roll, soul, R&B, country-western, gospel), creating the soundscape of our lives. What makes this book unique? Fathoming how the music flowed from living and working conditions in the heart of the Deep South; appreciating how life-changing events like the Flood of 1927 sparked a mass migration away from plantation life, spreading the blues to the cities in the North and becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movement; how blues musicians interacted, "cross-fertilizing" their music by learning, influencing, and imitating each other. The habits of travel are shifting, and there is more interest and a larger market for diving deep into destinations closer to home. Interest in Black history and culture and the role Black Americans played in shaping America is at an all-time high. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.
Blues People
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Author : Imamu Amiri Baraka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Blues People written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Blues People
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Author : LeRoi Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Blues People written by LeRoi Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Blind Joe Death S America
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Author : George Henderson
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2021-03-19
Blind Joe Death S America written by George Henderson and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939–2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns. Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location—the place where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a tune, accompanied his music.
The American Dream In Blues Music
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Author : Frank Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-10-08
The American Dream In Blues Music written by Frank Schmidt and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: In his publication of 1985, Peter Freese initially states, that in order to fully comprehend American culture and its products one must understand “certain enduring beliefs and convictions” (Freese 1985: 3). According to him, these beliefs and convictions together make up the ‘American Dream’, a concept that is and has been an integral constituent of American culture and society from its very beginning until today. Blues music is a product and certainly an important part of American culture and for over a century. Knowing this, the American Dream and the ideas that it represents must in some form relate to significant elements of blues music. But what is ‘The American Dream’ and what is ‘The Blues’?
The Original Blues
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Author : Lynn Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-02-27
The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Music categories.
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America's favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler "String Beans" May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the "blues master piano player of the world." His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female "coon shouters" acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the "blues queen." Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before--a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.