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Author : David Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520333772
Author : David Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520034848
Examines the processes of compostion, learning, and performance used by Southern black folk blues singers.
Author : Robert Sacre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496816160
Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacré, Arnold Shaw, and Dick Shurman Fifty 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 of the most influential artist of the Mississippi Delta blues. This volume brings together essays from that international symposium on Charley Patton and Mississippi blues traditions, influences, and comparisons. Originally published by Presses Universitaires de Liège in Belgium, this collection has been revised and updated with a new foreword by William Ferris, new images added, and some essays translated into English for the first time. Patton's personal life and his recorded music bear witness to how he endured and prevailed in his struggle as a black man during the early twentieth century. Within this volume, that story offers hope and wonder. Organized in two parts--"Origins and Traditions" and "Comparison with Other Regional Styles and Mutual Influence"--the essays create an invaluable resource on the life and music of this early master. Written by a distinguished group of scholars, these pieces secure the legacy of Charley Patton as the fountainhead of Mississippi Delta blues.
Author : James Charles Cobb
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0820321397
Cobb, "surveys the remarkable story of southern identity and its persistence in the face of sweeping changes in the South's economy, society and political structure."--dust jacket.
Author : David Huhn Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106006223256
Author : Stefan Grossman
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783235605
There are many intellectual curiosities about the blues. It has always seemed a phenomenon that the guitar styles that came out of the South during the twenties and thirties could be differentiated by their regional characteristics. On hearing a strange new artist, one can almost pinpoint his city of origin through his guitar technique. The Mississippi Delta produced a sound distinct from that of Texas. Atlanta had a very popular style that seems to have been confined to that city. The music of Louisiana has a weird voodoo texture, while the Carolinas produced another totally different sound. Music is quite a powerful tool. Words of explanation can never express the impact of a musical experience. I am going to attempt to teach the music of some great guitar bluesmen. It is not going to be isolated and picked apart, but presented with its historical value as well as personal and emotional value. Words will not be my tools for this venture; instead I will incorporate photographs and interview to describe these feelings.
Author : Gérard Herzhaft
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781557284525
he popular Encyclopedia of the Blues, first published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1992 and reprinted six times, has become an indispensable reference source for all involved with or intrigued by the music. The work alphabetizes hundreds of biographical entries, presenting detailed examinations of the performers and of the instruments, trends, recordings, and producers who have created and popularized this truly American art form.
Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442254497
This masterful survey covers all genres of popular music, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists.
Author : Stefan Grossman
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783234486
Tunings that differ from the standard EADGBE pattern have along and honorable history. From the pioneer blues-men to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Bert Jansch, creative guitarists using unconventional tunings have been able to create unusual sounds, difficult or impossible in standard tuning. Until recently it was assumed that standard tuning was best for the beginner. But as Stefan Grossman points out, there are many other tunings which have special advantages: for example, there are open tunings, in which the strings are tuned to produce a complete chord, making the work of the left hand significantly easier. There are many that can immediately help the beginner feel more at home with the instrument. Whether you are an all-thumbs beginner, or an advanced guitarist looking for new scope, in The Book of Tunings Stefan Grossman shows you how to make the guitar’s adaptability work for you. The tunings are presented with right-hand fingerpicking techniques, and the songs are a wide assortment of blues, ballads, bottleneck dance tunes, and medieval instrumentals. The book includes a discography and bibliography, and a special theory section by Larry Sandberg.
Author : Steven Carl Tracy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : AFRICAN AMERICANS--FOLKLORE.
ISBN : 0252069854
"Drawing on a deep understanding of the shades and structures of the blues, Steven C. Tracy elucidates the vital relationship between this musical form and the art of Langston Hughes, preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Tracy provides a cultural context for the poet's work and shows how Hughes mined African-American oral and literary traditions to create his blues-inspired poetry. Through a detailed comparison of Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy demonstrates how the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the blues are reflected in Hughes's experimental forms. The volume also includes a discography of recordings by the blues artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others-who most influenced Hughes, updated in a new introduction by the author."
Author : James C. Cobb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199762430
"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was in 1860: a land of rich soil, wealthy planters, and desperate poverty--the blackest and poorest counties in all the South. And yet it is a cultural treasure house as well--the home of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charley Pride, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Spencer, and Shelby Foote. Painting a fascinating portrait of the development and survival of the Mississippi Delta, a society and economy that is often seen as the most extreme in all the South, James C. Cobb offers a comprehensive history of the Delta, from its first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. Exploring the rich black culture of the Delta, Cobb explains how it survived and evolved in the midst of poverty and oppression, beginning with the first settlers in the overgrown, disease-ridden Delta before the Civil War to the bitter battles and incomplete triumphs of the civil rights era. In this comprehensive account, Cobb offers new insight into "the most southern place on earth," untangling the enigma of grindingly poor but prolifically creative Mississippi Delta.
Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136092749
How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future? Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field, including race, gender, authenticity and repetition. Taking most of his examples from across the past hundred years of popular music development--but relating them to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "pre-history"--Richard Middleton constructs an argument that relates "the popular" to the unfolding of modernity itself. Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies, and, against the grain of much contemporary thought, insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low.
Author : John M. Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195304046
Challenging the traditional interpretation that the years between Reconstruction and World War I were a period when Blacks made only marginal advances in religion, politics, and social life, John Giggie contends that these years marked a critical turning point in the religious history of Southern Blacks.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Bruce R. Olson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781483457970
That St. Louis Thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the city's famed musical development -- blues, jazz and rock -- placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and ecomomic power. Here, too, are the city's people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed artists such as Scott Joplin, Miles Davis and Tina Turner. The city is also the scene of a historic civil rights movement that remained important from its early beginnings into the twenty-first century. And here, too, are the sounds of the crack of the bat during a century-long love affair with baseball.
Author : Mark Hummel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578097672
Once Mark Hummel established himself in the music scene San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, Hummel performed with Boogie Jake, Sonny Lane, Cool Papa Sadler, Mississippi Johnny Waters, and dozens of other renown blues performers and icons. Mark formed the Blues Survivors in 1980, and the band, in one form or another, has been on the road with Mark ever since. Over the years Hummel has toured or recorded with Sue Foley, Charles Brown, Brownie McGhee, Willie Big Eyes Smith, James Cotton, Dave Myers, Charlie Musselwhite, and Frank Paris Slim Goldwasser. Hummel has also toured with Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Rogers, and Eddie Taylor; live recordings from those tours are available on his CD compilation Chicago Blues Party. In addition to playing in blues clubs across the U.S. and throughout Europe, Hummel and the Blues Survivors have performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Sonora Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also contributed CD reviews to Blues Wax, an online weekly blues music magazine, and written extensively for his blog on the Mark Hummel website.