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  • King of the Delta Blues

    The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

    de Gayle Dean Wardlow, Stephen Calt, Edward Komara ...
    Series series Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
    Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891–1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like “Pony Blues,” “A Spoonful Blues,” and “High Water Everywhere” in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, his contributions ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Theology and the Blues

    de Justin McLendon, Michael A.L. Broyles, Coldwell Daniel IV, William L. Ellis, Douglas Groothuis, Edward Komara, Jonathan Lower, Jessica McMillan, Michael Sharp0, Alex Sosler1, Julia Simon2, Mark Winborn3 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own

    de Edward Komara, Greg Johnson ...
    Series series Best Music Books
    Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t among the hundreds—sometimes thousands—of books on the music you so love? In the Best Music ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • The Blues Encyclopedia

    Edición de Edward Komara, Peter Lee ...
    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. ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Dick Waterman

    A Life in Blues

    de Tammy L. Turner ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century.A close proximity to Greenwich Village in the 1960s fueled Waterman's growing interest in folk music and led to ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Guide to Library Research in Music

    de Pauline Shaw Bayne, Edward Komara ...
    A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces students to the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. It provides examples of different types of writing, offers a thorough introduction to music literature, describes various information-searching methods and library-based organizational systems, and explores the wide array of music resources.This second edition discusses ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

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  • Dream Boogie

    The Triumph of Sam Cooke

    de Peter Guralnick ...
    From the acclaimed author of Last Train to Memphis, this is the definitive biography of Sam Cooke, one of most influential singers and songwriters of all time.Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes -- the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences, who wrote his own songs, who controlled his own ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Escaping the Delta

    Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

    de Elijah Wald ...
    The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history.Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll:An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    de Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Blues:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Elijah Wald ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Praised 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 music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Sound of the City

    The Rise of Rock and Roll

    de Charlie Gillett ...
    Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it.When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Jazz Standards

    A Guide to the Repertoire

    de Ted Gioia ...
    The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. Many books recommend jazz CDs or discuss musicians and styles, but this is ... Leer más

    $35.09 USD