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  • I AM A MAN

    Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

    de William R. Ferris ...
    In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis—where Martin Luther ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Deep Inside the Blues

    Photographs and Interviews

    de Margo Cooper ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and homes, neighborhoods, festivals, and gigs. Her photographic work combines iconic late-career images of many legendary ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Charley Patton

    Voice of the Mississippi Delta

    Edición de Robert Sacré ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Blues Book of the Year—26th Annual Living Blues AwardsContributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacré, Arnold Shaw, and Dick ShurmanFifty years after Charley Patton's death in 1934, a team of blues experts gathered five thousand miles from Dockery Farms at the University of Liege in Belgium to honor the life and music ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Mule Trader

    Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men

    de William R. Ferris ...
    Series series Banner Books
    Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.This delightful book, first published in 1992 as “You Live and Learn. Then You Die and Forget It All,” preserves Lum's colorful folk dialect and captures the essence of this one ... Leer más

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  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    His Own Story

    de Rick Bragg ...
    The greatest Southern storyteller of our time tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time—and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.The New York Times BestsellerOne of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of the YearA monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; ... Leer más

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  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

    Edición de Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Christopher John Farley ...
    A companion book to the PBS documentary series exploring the history of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.A companion to the groundbreaking documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.Included in this stunning collection are:Essays by David ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Country

    The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

    de Nick Tosches ...
    Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Hidden History of Mississippi Blues

    de Roger Stolle, Lou Bopp ...
    Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't simply play the blues, they lived it. Travel through the hallowed juke joints and cotton fields with ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Barrelhouse Blues

    Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues

    de Paul Oliver ...
    In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

    A 100 Year Documentary

    de James O. McHenry ED.D ...
    This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Early Blues

    The First Stars of Blues Guitar

    de Jas Obrecht ...
    Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the YearThe complete history of early blues guitar, with portraits of its first stars—now in paperbackSince the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Blues Traveling

    The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition

    de Steve Cheseborough ...
    At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues.Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music.Johnson, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD