The World Don T Owe Me Nothing
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The World Don T Owe Me Nothing
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Author : David Honeyboy Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2000-03
The World Don T Owe Me Nothing written by David Honeyboy Edwards and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.
100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own
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Author : Edward Komara
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-02-07
100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own written by Edward Komara and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-07 with Music categories.
Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t among the hundreds—sometimes thousands—of books on the music you so love? In the Best Music Books series, readers finally have a quick-and-ready list of the most important works published on modern major music genres by leading experts. In 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own, Edward Komara, former Blues Archivist of the University of Mississippi, and his successor Greg Johnson select those histories, biographies, surveys, transcriptions and studies from the many hundreds of works that have been published about this vital American musical genre. Komara and Johnson provide a short description of the contents and the achievement of each title selected for their “Blues 100.” Entries include full bibliographic citations, prices of copies in print, and even descriptions of specific editions for book collectors. 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own also includes suggested blues recordings to accompany each recommended work, as well as a concluding section on key reference titles—or as Komara and Johnson phrase it: “The Books behind the Blues 100.” 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own serves as a guide for any blues fan looking for a road map through the history of—and even history of the scholarship on—the blues. Here Komara and Johnson answer the question of not only what is a “blues” book, but which ones are worth owning.
The Carceral City
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Author : John Bardes
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2024-03-27
The Carceral City written by John Bardes 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 2024-03-27 with History categories.
Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit. Indeed, in New Orleans—for most of the past half-century, the city with the highest incarceration rate in the United States—enslaved people were jailed at higher rates during the antebellum era than are Black residents today. Moreover, some slave prisons remained in use well after Emancipation: in these forgotten institutions lie the hidden origins of state violence under Jim Crow. With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but they are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.
Delta Blues The Life And Times Of The Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
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Author : Ted Gioia
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-11-02
Delta Blues The Life And Times Of The Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music written by Ted Gioia and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-02 with Music categories.
“The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. Combining extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and first-person accounts with “his own calm, argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of Delta blues” (New York Times), this engrossing narrative is flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure “an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself” (Boston Sunday Globe). Rooted in the thick-as-tar Delta soil, Delta Blues is already “a contemporary classic in its field” (Jazz Review).
Encyclopedia Of The Blues
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Author : Edward M. Komara
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
Encyclopedia Of The Blues written by Edward M. Komara and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Blues categories.
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Beyond The Crossroads
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Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Beyond The Crossroads written by Adam Gussow 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 2017-09-05 with Music categories.
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
Selected Non Fiction
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Author : David Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-01-28
Selected Non Fiction written by David Flynn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A collection of the author's non-fiction, including newspaper stories, essays on various topics, reviews, and other prose.
A Blues Bibliography
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Author : Robert Ford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-31
A Blues Bibliography written by Robert Ford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-31 with Art categories.
This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.
Webster S New Essential Writer S Companion
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language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007
Webster S New Essential Writer S Companion written by and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Reference categories.
Webster’s New Essential Writer’s Companion is a helpful guide to the mechanics of good writing and effective research including the latest electronic resources. With sections on grammar, punctuation, style, usage, and proofreading, this easy-to-use reference offers invaluable guidance to writers looking to give every piece of writing that polished finish. Additional advice on constructing logical sentences and paragraphs shows how to build a convincing overall argument. Key sections on research explain how to take full advantage of the powerful search tools available over computer networks, both inside and outside a traditional library setting. Compact and to the point, this nifty handbook is an ideal resource for the home, office, or classroom.
The Blues Encyclopedia
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Author : Edward Komara
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-07
The Blues Encyclopedia written by Edward Komara and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07 with Art categories.
The first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. A to Z in format, this work covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues.