The Blues Line
Author : Eric Sackheim
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
ISBN :
Write Me a Few of Your Lines
Author : Steven Carl Tracy
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
A major anthology of writings on the blues published between 1911 and 1998, this collection includes sections by folklorists, literary artists, musicians, critics and aficionados.
The Blues Lyric Formula
Author : Michael Taft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135778035
Book Description
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
Blues Faces
Author :
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567921168
Book Description
Profiles and photos of blues musicians.
The Poetry of the Blues
Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486832953
Book Description
"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.
Worrying the Line
Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807855867
Book Description
In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction wr
Position Pieces for Cello
Author : Rick Mooney
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457404986
Book Description
Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!
Squeeze My Lemon
Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780634055461
Book Description
"They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad/Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad." There's a lot more to the blues than three chords played on an old beat-up guitar. Squeeze My Lemon is a collection of some of the best bluues lines ever recorded. From birth ("Born under a bad sign/I've been down since I began to crawl") to death ("Everybody wants to go to heaven/But nobody wants tto die") and everything in between, this volume quotes classic blues phrases by ssongwriter/artists B.B. King, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Robert JJohnson and many, many others. Compiled by award-winning author/Grammy-nominated record producer Randy Poe, Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyriics features classic photos of many leading blues artists. A great gift book, itt is highly entertaining not only for blues lovers, but for anyone who appreciatees great lyrics. Categorized by subject matter (Love - Or the Lack Thereof, Bluess and Booze, Blues Behind Bars, Make Mine a Double Entendre, etc.), Squeeze My Lemmon is a book you'll return to - and quote from - again and again.
Downhome Blues Lyrics
Author : Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252061301
Book Description
"A collection of outstanding folk blues lyrics composed and sung by black Americans and sold on commercial records in American black communities during the dozen or so year following World War II."--Preface.
Blues Poems
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375414584
Book Description
Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
