Blues (Music) - History and criticism
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Making Tracks: A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey
$41.67 Read moreFrom the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primari… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Billington, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1496839153
- Language: English
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Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January 4, 1969
$39.99 Read moreThis book focuses on a crucial moment in the history of one of the most popular bands in music history and its beginnings as a blues band in the late 1960s. It includes many never-before-seen color an… [more below]
- Author: Lowenthal, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364952
- Language: English
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
$12.95 Read moreThe Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi’s cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region’s great stars, performing for pa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs
- Author: Fahey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 486843440
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPraised as “suave, soulful, ebullient” (Tom Waits) and “a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian” (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0195398939
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
$18.00 Add to cartBlues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginni… [more below]
- Author: Palmer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 1982
- ISBN10: 0140062238
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World
$39.99 Add to cartCharting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0764359754
- Language: English
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of this country’s most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0679771263
- Language: English
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Blues People
$16.99 Read more“A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America’s most popular music.” — Langston Hughes
“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And
- Author: Jones, Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 068818474X
- Language: English
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
$24.95 Read moreFinalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture
A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Denise, Lynnée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1477321187
- Language: English
