Author | : George Mitchell |
Publisher | : American Made Music |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781617038167 |
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi's Hill Country blues
Author | : George Mitchell |
Publisher | : American Made Music |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781617038167 |
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi's Hill Country blues
Author | : George Mitchell |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1984-01-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Mitchell |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
To reveal what some young blacks from the rural South are thinking, and what everyday life is like for them, George Mitchell interviewed six young blacks from Georgia's poverty-stricken Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
Author | : Legs McNeil |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780802142641 |
Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.
Author | : Robert Ford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2019-07-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351398482 |
This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date, this volume covers works published since 2005, complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations, and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.
Author | : Edward Komara |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810889226 |
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.
Author | : Eilon Paz |
Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1607748703 |
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Author | : William Ferris |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 080789852X |
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human and artistic experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful. In an autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant musical culture that was all around him but was considered off limits to a white Mississippian during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of America itself.
Author | : Steven Manheim |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439667098 |
The Mississippi Delta blues run as deep and mysterious as the beautiful land from where the music originates. Blues legends B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and countless other greats came from this region. The Delta blues, born as work songs in Mississippi cotton fields, was played on city street corners and in rural juke joints. With the Great Migration of African Americans in the first half of the 20th century, the Delta blues also made its way from Mississippi to Chicago. The sound of the blues would become the blueprint for the birth of rock and roll in Memphis in the 1950s. The era of the great Delta blues musicians is over, but their legacy remains an important chapter in American music. This book contains images of these important performers and the rich Delta landscapes that influenced their music.