What The Blues Is All About
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All Music Guide To The Blues
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Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2003
All Music Guide To The Blues written by Vladimir Bogdanov and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
The Blues A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Elijah Wald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03
The Blues A Very Short Introduction written by Elijah Wald and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Music categories.
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.
All The Blues Come Through
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Author : Metra Farrari
language : en
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-11
All The Blues Come Through written by Metra Farrari and has been published by Wise Ink Creative Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with Fiction categories.
With her smart and playful writing, debut author Metra Farrari cleverly blends chick-lit with a dash of Greek mythology—the product a winning combination of smart-alecky wit, dreamy escapism, and a quirky yet lovable heroine. Ryan Bell is your typical millennial: surviving on a diet of wine and Netflix, woefully single enough to qualify for cat-lady membership, and renting from a seventy-something Tinder-swiping landlord-turned-bestie. But underneath her chipped-off manicure lies a green thumb that has created miraculous flowers capable of saving mankind from cataclysmic climate change. There's one problem: Only Ryan can grow them. An unusual audience comes to an unorthodox conclusion: Ryan is the heir of the Greek god Artemis. Although Ryan thinks these strange, toga-wearing folks are one kalamata olive short of a Greek salad, she reluctantly enters a hidden world where the Olympians are real and magic flows freely (plus a generous serving of Greek hunks). Talk about one epic identity crisis. Magical demigod or not, the fate of civilization—both mortal and godly—now rests on Ryan's shoulders.
The Big Book Of Blues
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Author : Robert Santelli
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2001
The Big Book Of Blues written by Robert Santelli and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Blues (Music) categories.
Contains over 650 entries profiling every important blues artist, including in each entry a discussion on the artist's style and musical contributions.
The Blues
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Author : Mary L. Hart
language : en
Publisher: New York : Garland
Release Date : 1989
The Blues written by Mary L. Hart and has been published by New York : Garland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
This guide to the literature is arranged by the following subject categories: background (black history and folklore); music of the blues; blues in American literature; blues interviews and biographies; blues in Great Britain; in Europe; how to play; discographies; filmography. Commentary by a blues scholar introduces each category. The guide selects books, journal articles, newspaper articles, dissertations, and phonograph record liner notes in English, French, German, Swedish, and Dutch. Coverage is through 1985. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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.
Conversation With The Blues Cd Included
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Author : Paul Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-25
Conversation With The Blues Cd Included written by Paul Oliver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in 1965 by Cassell and Co, this classic and unique text in blues history, Conversation with the Blues has now been re-issued in a new, larger format. The book takes a slice across blues traditions of all kinds, which were still thriving side by side in 1960. Compiled from transcriptions of interviews with blues singers made by Paul Oliver in 1960, the book tells in the singers' own words of the significance of their music and the turbulent lives it reflects. It is accompanied by a fascinating CD, slipcased on the inside back cover of the book, which captures the stark, ironic but moving narratives of the singers themselves. Included are guitarists, pianists and other instrumentalists from the rural South and the urban North, from famous blues singers who recorded extensively to singers known only to their local communities. Copiously illustrated with Paul Oliver's photographs, the book provides a rare glimpse of African American music at a time when the South was still segregated.
Encyclopedia Of The Blues
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Encyclopedia Of The Blues written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Whose Blues
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Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Whose Blues 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 2020-09-28 with Music categories.
Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.
Blues Fell This Morning
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Author : Paul Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-04-12
Blues Fell This Morning written by Paul Oliver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-12 with Music categories.
A new, revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues, first published in 1960.