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Author: Jim O'Neal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136707484
Size: 11.13 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Book Description: The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others.

Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 34.33 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: James William Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 74.28 MB
Format: PDF
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 29.81 MB
Format: PDF
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 56.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Daniel Beaumont
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199753121
Size: 23.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Book Description: In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an innovative style, incorporating strong repetitive rhythms with elements of southern gospel and spiritual vocals. A seminal figure in the history of the Delta blues, he was an important, direct influence on such figures as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. The landscape of Son House's life and the vicissitudes he endured make for an absorbing narrative, threaded through with a tension between House's religious beliefs and his spells of commitment to a lifestyle that implicitly rejected it. Drinking, womanizing, and singing the blues caused this tension that is palpable in his music, and becomes explicit in one of his finest performances, "Preachin' the Blues." Large parts of House's life are obscure, not least because his own accounts of them were inconsistent. Author Daniel Beaumont offers a chronology/topography of House's youth, taking into account evidence that conflicts sharply with the well-worn fable, and he illuminates the obscurity of House's two decades in Rochester, NY between his departure from Mississippi in the 1940s and his "rediscovery" by members of the Folk Revival Movement in 1964. Beaumont gives a detailed and perceptive account of House's primary musical legacy: his recordings for Paramount in 1930 and for the Library of Congress in 1941-42. In the course of his research Beaumont has unearthed not only connections among the many scattered facts and fictions but new information about a rumoured murder in Mississippi, and a charge of manslaughter on Long Island - incidents which bring tragic light upon House's lifelong struggles and self-imposed disappearance, and give trenchant meaning to the moving music of this early blues legend.

Author: Albert Murray
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Size: 23.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Blues (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Book Description: The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics.

Author: Edward Komara
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135958327
Size: 65.60 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Book Description: The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.

Author: John A. Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 35.85 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Laurens County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Author: Whitney J. Leblanc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781432714758
Size: 61.29 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Book Description: Moving from the end of WWII to the Civil Rights Movement in the Sixties, the Ferguson/Broussard families' struggle continues. The family seems to be unraveling against a backdrop of the blues. "A story of lust, love and voodoo."--Page 4 of cover.

Author: Garrett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469164205
Size: 34.35 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Book Description: Mississippi University for Women was a pioneer in the Southeast Region as well as the State of Mississippi in encouraging, promoting, and sponsoring intercollegiate athletics for women. The programs were always of the highest quality and conducted with integrity. The students and coaches involved were dedicated and committed to their respective sport. Loss of the Physical Education Assembly Building, destroyed by a tornado in 2002, and the subsequent decision (2003) by the university to cease participation in intercollegiate athletics prompted the writing of this book. Physical resources and historical records had been destroyed. Concern that the knowledge of this program would be lost along with its signifi cance to the university alumnae, and womens sport history, challenged five retired Health and Kinesiology faculty members to write this book. They knew that their collective knowledge and experiences were invaluable in recording a century of athletic competition at the W. These women promoted the educational model of sport believing that the opportunity to participate in sports brings both value and pleasure to the quality of life.

Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135865078
Size: 34.82 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
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Book Description: A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.