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A new, revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues, first published in 1960.
Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1990-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521377935
A new, revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues, first published in 1960.
Author : Paul Oliver
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Page : 383 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 1963
Category : African Americans
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Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Jazz
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Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521477383
Examines themes, backgrounds, and motivation of the blues from the 1920s to the 1950s
Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0465019897
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.
Author : Christian O'Connell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 047212112X
Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and disseminated, they have so far only told an American story, failing to acknowledge that in the post-war era the blues had spread far beyond the borders of the United States. As Christian O’Connell shows in Blues, How Do You Do? Paul Oliver’s largely neglected scholarship—and the unique transatlantic cultural context it provides—is vital to understanding the blues. O’Connell’s study begins with Oliver’s scholarship in his early days in London as a writer for the British jazz press and goes on to examine Oliver’s encounters with visiting blues musicians, his State Department–supported field trip to the US in 1960, and the resulting photographs and oral history he produced, including his epic “blues narrative,” The Story of the Blues (1969). Blues, How Do You Do? thus aims to move away from debates that have been confined within the limits of national borders—or relied on clichés of British bands popularizing American music in America—to explore how Oliver’s work demonstrates that the blues became a reified ideal, constructed in opposition to the forces of modernity.
Author : Mezz Mezzrow
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590179455
Hailed as an “American counter-culture classic,” this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) 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.”
Author : Tanya Tucker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743270182
How do you beat the blues? We all have moments in life when we're down, lonely, or just plain sad. It's part of being human. Just as everyone is different, everyone has a unique way of beating the blues.
Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486832953
"A signal event in the history of the music." — Ted Gioia, author of The Delta Blues Musicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929–2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world music, Charters conducted research that brought obscure musicians of the American South and Appalachia into the mainstream. In this landmark volume, the noted blues historian and folklorist presents a rich exploration of blues songs as folk poetry, quoting lyrics by such legends as Son House and Lightnin' Hopkins at length to reveal the depth of feeling and complex literary forms at work within a unique art form. Originally published in 1963, The Poetry of the Blues raised interest in many previously unrecognized aspects of African-American music and made a significant contribution to the blues revival of the 1960s. This volume features now-vintage black-and-white photographs by Ann Charters from the original edition.
Author : Persia Walker
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936070901
"Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the "Black Orchid," a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. When hours pass without a word from the kidnapper, puzzlement grows as to his motive. After a gruesome package arrives at Price's doorstep, the questions change. Just what does the kidnapper want--and how many people is he willing to kill to get it?" -- Publisher.