A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker.Born in Detroit, John Lee Hooker Jr. began singing as a featured attraction in his fathers shows as ateenager. His father was a sharecroppers son who became known for hit...Lasīt vairāk
A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker.Born in Detroit, John Lee Hooker Jr. began singing as a featured attraction in his fathers shows as ateenager. His father was a sharecroppers son who became known for hit...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496853455)
Booker "e;Bukka"e; White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Book...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496853479)
Booker "e;Bukka"e; White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Book...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040175583)
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural cri...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040175606)
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural cri...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780760387573)
Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genres greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present.From blues pioneers like Robert Johnson, Son House, Blin...Lasīt vairāk
Ella Fitzgerald was one of Americas greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems possible to compile. This volume also contains a complete discography (1927-1939) for drummer and bandl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270158)
The term ;blues has traditionally conveyed an image of hard-living, hard-drinking, carousing singers and musicians grinding out melancholy tunes and evil lyrics. Contesting that stereotypical notion, this study argues that spiritual values are cle...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496852977)
In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496852991)
In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056765)
The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "e;Ink"e; Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murph...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056949)
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughess work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Com...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056208)
Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deals Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Mar-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040005507)
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framewor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040005538)
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framewor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056048)
Mamie Smiths 1920 recording of "e;"e;Crazy Blues"e;"e; is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet m...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Mar-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496849823)
Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musicians dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend M...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496849809)
Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musicians dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend M...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Feb-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807181508)
The release of the song "e;Hound Dog"e; in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. Ben Wynnes A Hound Dog Tale discusses...Lasīt vairāk
