Living Country Blues
Author | : Harry Oster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780810350267 |
Download Living Country Blues full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Living Country Blues ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Harry Oster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780810350267 |
Author | : Gale Group |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780028653457 |
Author | : Stefan Grossman |
Publisher | : Alfred Music Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780739042816 |
"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.
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 | : Phil Wiggins |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1496826930 |
Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC’s Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene around him, as described by music journalist Frank Matheis. Featuring Wiggins’s story, but including information on many musicians, the volume presents an incomparable documentary of the African American blues scene in Washington, DC, from 1975 to the present. At its core, the DC-area acoustic “down home” blues scene was and is rooted in the African American community. A dedicated group of musicians saw it as their mission to carry on their respective Piedmont musical traditions: Mother Scott, Flora Molton, Chief Ellis, Archie Edwards, John Jackson, John Cephas, and foremost Phil Wiggins. Because of their love for the music and willingness to teach, these creators fostered a harmonious environment, mostly centered on Archie Edwards’s famous barbershop where Edwards opened his doors every Saturday afternoon for jam sessions. Sweet Bitter Blues features biographies and supporting essays based on Wiggins’s recollections and supplemented by Matheis’s research, along with a foreword by noted blues scholar Elijah Wald, historic interviews by Dr. Barry Lee Pearson with John Cephas and Archie Edwards, and previously unpublished and rare photographs. This is the story of an acoustic blues scene that was and is a living tradition.
Author | : Jon Gindick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Harmonica |
ISBN | : 9780932592798 |
Author | : Phil Wiggins |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1496826957 |
Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC’s Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene around him, as described by music journalist Frank Matheis. Featuring Wiggins’s story, but including information on many musicians, the volume presents an incomparable documentary of the African American blues scene in Washington, DC, from 1975 to the present. At its core, the DC-area acoustic “down home” blues scene was and is rooted in the African American community. A dedicated group of musicians saw it as their mission to carry on their respective Piedmont musical traditions: Mother Scott, Flora Molton, Chief Ellis, Archie Edwards, John Jackson, John Cephas, and foremost Phil Wiggins. Because of their love for the music and willingness to teach, these creators fostered a harmonious environment, mostly centered on Archie Edwards’s famous barbershop where Edwards opened his doors every Saturday afternoon for jam sessions. Sweet Bitter Blues features biographies and supporting essays based on Wiggins’s recollections and supplemented by Matheis’s research, along with a foreword by noted blues scholar Elijah Wald, historic interviews by Dr. Barry Lee Pearson with John Cephas and Archie Edwards, and previously unpublished and rare photographs. This is the story of an acoustic blues scene that was and is a living tradition.
Author | : Adam Gussow |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1469633671 |
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.
Author | : Samuel Charters |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1975-08-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.