In Search Of The Blues
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In Search Of The Blues
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Author : Marybeth Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Release Date : 2008
In Search Of The Blues written by Marybeth Hamilton and has been published by Basic Books (AZ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Music categories.
Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music. Hamilton shows that the Delta blues was effectively invented by white pilgrims, seekers, and propagandists who headed deep into America's south in search of an authentic black voice of rage and redemption. In their quest, and in the immense popularity of the music they championed, we confront America's ongoing love affair with racial difference.
Chasin That Devil Music
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Author : Gayle Wardlow
language : en
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Release Date : 1998-08
Chasin That Devil Music written by Gayle Wardlow and has been published by Backbeat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08 with Music categories.
Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s
Searching For Robert Johnson
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Author : Peter Guralnick
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Searching For Robert Johnson written by Peter Guralnick and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Music categories.
This highly acclaimed biography from the author of Last Train to Memphis illuminates the extraordinary life of one of the most influential blues singers of all time, the legendary guitarist and songwriter whose music inspired generations of musicians, from Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones and beyond. The myth of Robert Johnson’s short life has often overshadowed his music. When he died in 1938 at the age of just twenty-seven, poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he’d been flirting with at a dance, Johnson had recorded only twenty-nine songs. But those songs would endure as musical touchstones for generations of blues performers. With fresh insights and new information gleaned since its original publication, this brief biographical exploration brilliantly examines both the myth and the music. Much in the manner of his masterful biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick here gives readers an insightful, thought-provoking, and deeply felt picture, removing much of the obscurity that once surrounded Johnson without forfeiting any of the mystery. “I finished the book," declared the New York Times Book Review, "feeling that, if only for a brief moment, Robert Johnson had stepped out of the mists.”
Getting The Blues
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Author : Stephen J. Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2008-09
Getting The Blues written by Stephen J. Nichols and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Music categories.
A vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.
Blue Chicago
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Author : David Grazian
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-09-30
Blue Chicago written by David Grazian and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with Art categories.
In this work David Grazian takes the reader inside the world of contemporary urban blues to explore the quest for authenticity that the blues inspires.
Little Blues Book
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Author : Brian Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Little Blues Book written by Brian Robertson and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Music categories.
This little book transcends geographical, social, and economic boundaries to search the heart and soul of the blues, looking for rules to live by, hope for the downtrodden, cautionary tales for the good times, and truths that "hurt so good". Sometimes, you just gotta be blue. But, as this book goes to show, that's okay--because you're never alone.
I Don T Like The Blues
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Author : B. Brian Foster
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-10-08
I Don T Like The Blues written by B. Brian Foster 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 2020-10-08 with Social Science categories.
How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, Black Mississippians would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would say they didn’t like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked: “How?” “Why not?” “Will it ever change?” This is the story of the answers to his questions. In this illuminating work, Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of Black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them. In so doing, Foster urges us to think differently about race, place, and community development and models a different way of hearing the sounds of Black life, a method that he calls listening for the backbeat.
Really The Blues
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Author : Mezz Mezzrow
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2016-02-23
Really The Blues written by Mezz Mezzrow and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. Really the Blues, the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe, is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”
Urban Blues
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Author : Charles Keil
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991
Urban Blues written by Charles Keil and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Music categories.
"Keil's classic account of blues and its artists is both a guide to the development of the music and a powerful study of the blues as an expressive form in and for African American life." -- Amazon.com.