The Down Home Guide to the Blues
Title | The Down Home Guide to the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Scott |
Publisher | A Cappella Books (IL) |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
A discographical guide to more than 3,000 blues and gospel LPs, CDs, and cassettes with information on the featured artists, and the quality and availability of the recordings.
Early Downhome Blues
Title | Early Downhome Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Todd Titon |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781469616919 |
Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work. Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry. In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.
Down Home Blues
Title | Down Home Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Phyllis R. Dixon |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781310107009 |
HOME IS THE PLACE WHERE WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO THERE THEY HAVE TO LET YOU IN.Eden, Arkansas is a town you are from, not move to. But when divorce, foreclosure, domestic violence, and an all-expense paid trip (also called prison) disrupt the Washington siblings' perfectly planned lives, they end up back down home. Instead of serenity, sibling rivalries, divided loyalties and money squabbles resurface. Even the good news, that there may be natural gas on their father's land, causes conflict. When their father, C.W. Washington, one of the largest landowners in the county, announces his engagement, barely six months after his wife's death, his daughters fear Viagra is clouding his judgement (his sons say - go for it).Homemade preserves and family dinners are welcome by-products of the move down home. Unfortunately, family members aren't always singing in the same key. But just a few notes can switch a gloomy blues tune to the soundtrack for a good time. What song will the Washingtons play?Praise for Down Home Blues"Ms. Dixon has penned another riveting Southern family drama."Evelyn Palfrey, Essence Magazine best-selling author"Down Home Blues does a fantastic job of exploring how individuals and families interrelate..."D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
All Music Guide to the Blues
Title | All Music Guide to the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Bogdanov |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780879307363 |
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
Early Downhome Blues
Title | Early Downhome Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Todd Titon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780835732949 |
Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, "Early Downhome Blues" is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work. Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry. In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.
Journeyman's Road
Title | Journeyman's Road PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Gussow |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781572335691 |
Journeyman's Road offers a bold new vision of where the blues have been in the course of the twentieth century and what they have become at the dawn of the new millennium: a world music rippling with postmodern contradictions. Author Adam Gussow brings a unique perspective to this exploration. Not just an award-winning scholar and memoirist, he is an accomplished blues harmonica player, a Handy award nominee, and veteran of the international club and festival circuit. With this unusual depth of experience, Gussow skillfully places blues literature in dialogue with the music that provokes it, vibrantly articulating a vital American tradition. At the heart of Gussow's story is his own unlikely yet remarkable streetside partnership with Harlem bluesman Sterling Mr. Satan Magee, a musical collaboration marked not just by a series of polarities--black and white, Mississippi and Princeton, hard-won mastery and youthful apprenticeship--but by creative energies that pushed beyond apparent differences to forge new dialogues and new sounds. Undercutting familiar myths about the down-home sources of blues authenticity, Gussow celebrates New York's mongrel blues scene: the artists, the jam sessions, the venues, the street performers, and the eccentrics. At once elegiac and forward-looking, Journeyman's Road offers a collective portrait of the New York subculture struggling with the legacy of 9/11 and healing itself with the blues.
Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index
Title | Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index PDF eBook |
Author | Edward M. Komara |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis US |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415927017 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.