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Page 541
Friday, December 31, 2010
Jazz Records, 1942-80: A-Ba By Erik Raben, Ole J. Nielsen
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Blues unlimited, Issues 147-149
Page 41
Title
Blues unlimited, Issues 147-149
Publisher
BU Publications Ltd., 1986
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
20 Jul 2009
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Give my poor heart ease: voices of the Mississippi blues By William Ferris
 | Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues |
From Publishers Weekly
For blues lovers who love their experience pure and strong, Ferris (Blues from the Delta) conducted more than 20 interviews of blues and gospel performers from the Mississippi Delta for his latest book. The author did much of this fieldwork as a graduate student during the 1960s and 1970s, capturing these singers close to where they grew up, chopping cotton and tending the farms during the day and prowling around the jukes and roadhouses at night. From among the Delta locals of sacred and secular music, Ferris interviews such blues masters as James Son Ford Thomas, Willie Dixon and B.B. King, with their words accompanied by a stirring CD/DVD of their music. There is an intriguing section on the infamous Parchman Penitentiary in the Delta, where cruel overseers and defiant inmates battle each other. Joyous, powerful and authentic, this package is designed to both inform and entertain those willing to plunge into this audacious world. (Nov.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Jazz in the movies By David Meeker
| Buy This Book | Jazz in the Movies: A Guide to Jazz Musicians, 1917-1977 |
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
A Hard Days Night
5 -5 5 6 6 6
It's been a hard day's night,
6 6 -5 6 -7 6 -5 6 -5 5
and I been work-ing like a dog---
5 -5 5 6 6 6
It's been a hard day's night,
6 6 -5 6 -7 6 -5 6 -5 5
I should be sleep-ing like a log---
7 7 7 7 -7 -7 -6
But when I get home to you
7 7 7 -8 -8 7 -7
I find the things that you do
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 6
Will make me feel al-l-right
5 -5 5 6 6 6
You know I work all day
6 6 -5 6 -7
to get you mon-ey
6 6 -5 6 -5 5
to buy you things---
-5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
And it's worth it just to hear you say
6 6 6 6 -7 -7
you're gon-na to give me
6 -5 6 -5 5
ev-'ry-thing---
7 7 7 7 7 -7 -7
So why on earth should I moan,
7 7 7 -8 -8 7 -7
'cause when I get you a-lone
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
6 -7 7
When I'm home
7 -7 -6 -6 -7 7 -8
feel-ing you hold-ing me tight,
-8 -8
tight,yeah
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
Midnight Special
| "Midnight Special" | |
| Written by | Traditional |
| Language | English |
| Form | Country blues |
| Original artist | Traditional |
| Recorded by | (Historically) |
"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song that probably originated among prisoners in the American South. The title refers to the light of a train that shines through the prison window and represents a light of salvation that can deliver the prisoner from his prison walls. The song is played in the country-blues style. Verses vary and intermix with other prison songs, such as "Jumpin Judy," "Ain't That Berta," "Oh Berta," and "Yon Comes de Sargent." Many of the components of these songs became standard in the blues repertoire and appear in other types of blues songs.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Gramophone, Volume 38, Part 1 By Sir Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone
Page 199
Title
Gramophone, Volume 38, Part 1
Authors
Sir Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone
Publisher
General Gramophone Publications Ltd., 1960
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
29 Sep 2009
Monday, December 20, 2010
Great American Websites: an online discovery of a hidden America By Edward J. Renehan, Edward Renehan
Pg 311
 | Great American Websites: An Online Discovery of a Hidden America |
Amazon.com Review
Who better to lead an online tour of America than Edward J. Renehan? He's a respected historian, Internet guru, and even a much-traveled musician. You might expect such a person to give a very personal view of this country, and you'd be right. Each of the 21 chapters begins with a mini-essay--entertaining and information-rich, despite their brevity--offering Renehan's personal insights into some topic's place in the American experience. The great thing is that the tour he provides leaves much room for every reader's take on American culture. Renehan serves up his selection of the best American Web sites with an eye on diversity. Here are sites showing both the range of American foods and the many ways we see our criminals and our legal system. There are sites devoted to all aspects of the American religious experience, historic events and sites, celebrations and extravaganzas, travel, natural wonders, politics and much more. What you'll get out of this book, besides a huge collection of wonderful web sites, is an enhanced appreciation for America's greatness--not just greatness in the sense of exalted, but in the sense of the expansiveness of its people, places, and subcultures.
From Library Journal
This is really a book on American history using the net. This might be compared to the Wolff New Media subject guides to the net?NetSex, Net Scifi, etc.?but we are dealing with a serious topic that will bring truly new resources to students' fingertips. Taking a broad view of American history, chapters deal with sports, architecture, crime, the outdoors, and food as well as the expected patriots, law, maps, and politics. From Gettysburg to T.S. Eliot to the My Lai massacre, it's all here for the clicking.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title
Great American Websites: an online discovery of a hidden America
Authors
Edward J. Renehan, Edward Renehan
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
16 Oct 2009
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Dealing With The Devil Volume Two
1977
Dealing With The Devil - Jimmy Cotton
Rockin' & Whoopin' - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Born With The Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
New Vicksburgh Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
Hot Nuts - Roosevelt Sykes
St Louis Blues - Jimmy Rushing
I Keep On Drinkin' - Little Brother Montgomery
Jet Plane Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Farrish St. Jive - Little Brother Montgomery
Sweet Old Chicago - Roosevelt Sykes
Am I Blue - Jimmy Rushing
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Big Blues. Music for Little People.
Big Blues. Music for Little People. 46min. Imagine learning to sing the ABCs with Taj Mahal or singing along to "Zip a Dee Doo Dah" with the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Children can "Pick a Bale o' Cotton" with the legendary Sonny Terry, take a "Flying Lesson" with Michelle Shocked, or sing the blues with Rita Coolidge or B. B. King. This melding of the best of America's blues artists with children's music is truly a recording that families can enjoy together.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Making People's Music : Moe Asch and Folkways Records
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Description:
The biography of Folkway Records founder Moe Asch who is best known for his recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. A clean, tight unread copy. DJ is somewhat rubbed with one closed tear to back. Bookseller Inventory # 000928
Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis: The founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. Using Asch's career as a lens through which to view folk music, leftist politics, and the recording industry, Peter D. Goldsmith shows how Asch's breadth of vision produced an extraordinary recorded legacy--from jazz, historical ballads, and children's street rhymes to the folk music of Woody Guthrie and the blues of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Review: "...as an examination of how Folkways successfully mined obscure veins of vernacular music for four decades, this is a valuable study."
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1ST edition (January 1, 1998)
(ISBN: 1560988126 / 1-56098-812-6 )
Goldsmith, Peter D.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The big book of blues: a biographical encyclopedia By Robert Santelli
Pgs 286, 396, 397
 | The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia |
From Library Journal
This ambitious biographical encyclopedia delivers the goods, listing over 600 entries from every era and style of the blues. Santelli's wide definition of blues music includes styles from folk to rock to zydeco. Important British artists like Eric Clapton and John Mayal are covered, and songwriters and producers also receive recognition. Some purists may quibble about the inclusion of Lucinda Williams and the absence of Koerner, Ray and Glover (the trio that introduced country blues to many white college students in the Sixties). Still, the concise, informative biographical data and the lists of essential recordings that follow each entry make this book essential for any comprehensive music collection. Highly recommended.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The blues seem to have been making a reference-publishing comeback in the past few years. The Big Book of Blues, by music-journalist Santelli, explores the lives of 650 blues musicians, with a few nonmusicians, such as the Lomaxes from the Library of Congress, mixed in.
The biographical essays open with the names of band members or individual artists, the real name or other performing nom de chanson, and birth and death dates. Entries cover the performers' career and include other musicians who influenced or played with them, hit records or singles, discussion of style, etc. Entries range in length from approximately 100 words for Eddie "Vaan" Shaw to more than 650 for Blind Lemon Jefferson. There are some discrepancies in dates between this and other sources for early blues performers, stemming mostly from unclear records. Unlike the recent Encyclopedia of the Blues by Herzhaft [RBB Ja 1 93], which had some entries by genre such as Female Blues Singers or White Blues, The Big Book of Blues is by individual or band name only, and as a result some performers have longer essays here than in Herzhaft (e.g., Sippie Wallace).
There are cross-references to other performers within essays, but no references from real names or lesser-known nicknames to the entry under the best-known performing name. Profiles end with a brief discography. A bibliography of sources and a name index conclude the work.
Libraries owning Blues Who's Who by Harris (Da Capo, 1981) and the Encyclopedia of the Blues may not need The Big Book of Blues unless they have an active blues audience. However, the book is well written, inexpensive, and current, making it an attractive purchase.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Masters of the Country Blues - Rev. Gary Davis and Sonny Terry
The Rev. Gary Davis and Sonny Terry both went from the streets of Durham, North Carolina, to worldwide acclaim, so it's appropriate that two blind musicians share a tape. Davis was a single-note fingerpicker par excellence, with a strong ragtime base. Though he repudiated blues and would sing only gospel music, he could be talked into numbers like "Candy Man" as long as he only played them. So three of the eight selections are blues-rag instrumentals, two are vaudeville-flavored pieces, "She Wouldn't Say Quit" and "Where You Get Your Liquor From," and the rest is pure gospel. Davis's sprightly picking contrasts with his rather foreboding appearance. (Guitarists will appreciate that all 
tapes feature lingering closeups of hand work, but they'll probably want to rewind some here - Davis often used false fingering positions so others couldn't steal his style.)
Sonny Terry is the virtuoso harp player who was teamed - and often at odds - with guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brownie McGhee for some 30 years. Terry played with the best, including Leadbelly, Blind boy Fuller, and Woody Guthrie, but he's a standout on his own. This set features him on five solo numbers, with quite gregarious, slightly off-the-wall introductions. His single-note playing with accompanying hand flutters for tone altering is captured nicely, especially on his showcase "Hooting the Blues." He alternates between harp notes and sung falsetto tones so rapidly it's mind-boggling; he was one of a kind.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The country blues By Samuel Barclay Charters
Page 221
 | The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) |
Product Description
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world of the country bluesman--that lone black performer accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich reflection of his own emotional life.Virtually rewriting the history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of rock and roll. His carefully-researched biographies of near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Tampa Red--coupled with his perceptive discussions of their recordings--pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins--point up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
Samuel Charters is a musicographer, novelist, poet, and producer of jazz and blues records who for many years has also been seriously interested in every aspect of black music. His book, The Country Blues, was the first to be published on the subject. He began making field recordings in the South in the early 1950s and has subsequently produced many recordings, both of individual blues artists and of the musical backgrounds of the blues in the United States and the Caribbean. He has since extended his research and recording to West Africa. His other books include Jazz: A History of the New York Scene, The Blues Makers, and The Roots of the Blues.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Blacks in America, 1492-1970: a chronology & fact book By Irving J. Sloan
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Pg 95
Book overview
A chronology of blacks in America with such additional lists of information as major Afro-American organizations and publications, libraries with black history and literature collections, and a statistical abstract of Afro-American economic and social status.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
A guide to the blues: history, who's who, research sources By Austin M. Sonnier
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Book overview
The only book about the blues that embraces a complete history, this ambitious work traces almost 1,000 years of cultural history and connects the blues to its roots in African history and musical forms and to the history of slavery. This comprehensive reference contains an up-to-date biographical dictionary which includes discographies of over 300 blues men and women. Nicknames by which the musicians are known are cross-referenced; photos of many blues greats, some from the author's personal collection; an extensive filmography, discography, and bibliography; visits to highly musical places where the blues flourished in America; and a study of the influence of voodoo on the blues and, in turn, the influence of the blues on rock and roll. Sonnier has been involved with the blues all his life, and brings to this work both professional expertise and an intimate knowledge of the music and its interpreters.
From Library Journal
Sonnier's attempt to produce a comprehensive guide to the blues succeeds on most levels. We follow the development of the blues from its roots in Africa through slavery to its influence on modern popular music. The Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, Texas, and Chicago are detailed for their own particular contributions to the blues form, while a discussion of the distinct scale systems, melodic phrases, and harmonic traditions that characterize the blues offers musicians some technical insights. A chapter on the Twenties and Thirties gives the classic women blues singers their due. The longest section of the book, a series of some 300 biographical sketches, is devoted to performers. Recommended for music libraries.
Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Combining the history of the blues and information about those who created that history into one volume is the aim of this latest blues entry.
The first six chapters outline the history of the blues. Of particular interest is the explanation of the similarities and differences in the musical scales used in European and African music and the blues. Other chapters focus on such issues as the influence of slavery on the blues, the geography of blues evolution, the classic blues belters, voodoo and New Orleans blues, and the blues from the 1950s on.
Almost 400 performers are profiled in the biographical dictionary, which comprises the second section. Entries range from a few sentences to a full page. They include, when possible, a brief discography, filmography, and bibliography. The essays cover the performer's important works, influences, collaborations, style, and importance. Performers represent a variety of time periods and styles. They include Big Maceo, Alberta Hunter, Albert Collins, Clifton Chenier, Johnny Winter, Etta James, and Bonnie Raitt. A section of black-and-white photos closes out the biographies. A select filmography, bibliography, and discography (arranged by record label) append the book. The book has a good index, although there are also see references in both sections.
With so many good blues books published recently, such as Herzhaft's Encyclopedia of the Blues [RBB Ja 1 93], which also includes some historical and geographic entries, or Santelli's Big Book of Blues [RBB Mr 15 94], Sonnier has some strong competition for the library dollar. His is a well-written book that will be an attractive choice, if a library needs additional material on the blues.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group; 1ST edition (June 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0313287244
- ISBN-13: 978-0313287244
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Stereo review, Volume 47
Pg 82
Title
Stereo review, Volume 47
Publisher
CBS Magazines, 1982
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
27 Dec 2007
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Coda, Issues 188-193 By Traditional Jazz Club of Toronto
Pages V, VI, 23
Title
Coda, Issues 188-193
Author
Traditional Jazz Club of Toronto
Publisher
J. Norris, 1983
Original from
the University of Virginia
Digitized
12 Feb 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Southern exposure, Volume 2 By Institute for Southern Studies
Pages 56, 61, 62
Title
Southern exposure, Volume 2
Author
Institute for Southern Studies
Publisher
Institute for Southern Studies., 1974
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
12 Aug 2009
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Coffee House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
2005 Japanese exclusive limited edition
1. Introduction - Lightnin' Hopkins
2. Big Car Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Coffee House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
4. Stool Pigeon Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
5. Ball Of Twine - Lightnin' Hopkins
6. Blues For Gamblers - Lightnin' Hopkins with Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
7. Walk On - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
8. Blues For The Lowlands - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
9. Down By The Riverside - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
10. Blowin' The Fuses - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
11. Right On That Shore - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry with Lightnin' Hopkins
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Blues Hoot - Lightnin' Hopkins
1963
1. Introduction
2. Big Car Blues
3. Coffee House Blues
4. Stool Pigeon Blues
5. Ball Of Twine
6. Blues For Gamblers
7. Walk On
8. Blues For The Lowlands
9. Down By The Riverside
10. Blowin' The Fuses
11. Right On That Shore
Friday, December 3, 2010
![Harmonica Blues [1998]](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9zdSkOZKB5w/TPhojyYaNgI/AAAAAAAAATw/jfQx8-x3_Q8/s1600-h/Harmonica%20Blues%20%5B1998%5D%5B5%5D.jpg "Harmonica Blues [1998]")
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
1964
1. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee
3. What A Beautiful City
4. Glory Glory
5. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray
6. I'm Going To Shout
7. I Shall Not Be Moved
8. Packing Up
9. Get Right, Church
10. Some Of These Days
11. If You See My Saviour
12. You Can't Hide
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Brownie's Blues - 1962
1. Jump Little Children
2. Lonesome Day
3. One thing For Sure
4. The Killin' Floor
5. Little Black Engine
6. I Don't Know The Reason
7. Trouble In Mind
8. Everyday I Have The Blues
9. Door To Success
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The folk music sourcebook By Larry Sandberg, Dick Weissman
Page 9, 14, 15
 | The Folk Music Source Book |
Title
The folk music sourcebook
A Borzoi book
[Marshall F. Granros collection]
Authors
Larry Sandberg, Dick Weissman
Edition
illustrated
Monday, November 29, 2010
Coda magazine, Issues 177-187
Pages 35, 37
Title
Coda magazine, Issues 177-187
Publisher
J. Norris, 1981
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
23 Mar 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Coda magazine, Issues 188-193
On Pages 20, 65
Title
Coda magazine, Issues 188-193
Publisher
J. Norris, 1983
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
23 Mar 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
That's The Stuff. The Recordings Of Brownie Mcghee, Sonny Terry [Paperback] Chris Smith (Author)
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Publisher: Publisher Unknown (1999)
Friday, November 26, 2010
THE BATH FESTIVAL OF JAZZ: Regency Ballroom, Bath, June 2nd-June 7th, 1958: Concert program.
16pp; illus from photographs. Contains the programme for each day of the Festival, along with photographs of the performers and groups and considerable biographical material. 10.5" x 8.25 In this first year for jazz as one of the art forms at the Bath Festival, the musicians were: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, The Omega Band; Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band; Chris Barber's Jazz Band, with Ottilie Patterson, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; Mick Mulligan & His Band, with George Melly, Beryl Bryden and Neva Raphaello; Tony Kinsey Quintet; Tommy Whittle Quintet; Dill Jones Trio; Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra. Each evening concert was accompanied by an expert lecture on the particular jazz idiom featured that night.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
North Carolina folklore By North Carolina Folklore Society, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Folklore Council
Pg 102
Title
North Carolina folklore
Authors
North Carolina Folklore Society, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Folklore Council
Publisher
North Carolina Folklore Society., 1971
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
6 Jul 2009
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Music Minus One (Book No. 140) Weissman, Dick
Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some shelf wear, light stain in the upper corner of the rear of the wrapper, overall a nice well-preserved used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! No publishing date. Black and white wrapper with a white illustration on the front and a black and white photograph on the rear with black lettering. 48 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! (RECORD NOT INCLUDED) Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "The purpose of this book is to teach you how to play the blues on the guitar. No previous knowledge of the guitar is required, and extended examples are given of each style. The blues style is roughly a hundred years old, and arises from the lives and feelings of the Negro people in Souther U.S. This music encompasses a broad though subtle musical scope. The best way to feel the blues is to listen to and know personally as many blues singers as you can. In my own case, my first night club job was with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Listening to them night after night, I learned more about the form and spontaneity of the blues than any book or record could have taught me
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Signed Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. New York: New Directions, 1955. First Edition, First Issue.
Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. New York: New Directions, 1955. First Edition, First Issue. 8vo., 197pp. An essentially fine copy showing minimal use. Neatly signed in blue fountain pen by Williams on the second free endpaper. First state binding without mention of the New York Times review on the copyright page & no credit for Mielziner or Ballard on p. XII. The original Alvin Lustig designed dustwrapper in very good or better condition [A couple of closed tears, minor wear]. An important title, difficult to find signed. The original 1955 Kazan directed theatrical performance, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, & blues greats Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman starred in the film version. A nice copy of this Pulitzer winning Williams masterpiece which along with "Streetcar" ranks as his most desirable title to find signed. $4575.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. [Original Playscript], [n.d.] [c: 1954]
Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. [Original Playscript], [n.d.] [c: 1954] Ts, 133 pp. [Typescript Carbon Original]. Acts I, II & III. Numbered internally by Act. Bound into a grey two hole duo tang style folder showing some use, with the red printed label of "Anne Meyerson Manuscript Typing And Mimeographing Service pasted onto the top left corner. Originally sold by Harvey Tucker of Black Sun Books in 1981 with his signed note on the title page: "This script of Tennessee Williams is from the collection of Audrey Wood, his agent, and is authentic". The play was dedicated by Williams to Audrey Wood his long-time literary agent. From 1939 Wood helped guide & focus Williams' writing. With her nurturing, he created some of his greatest works, including: Menagerie, Streetcar & Cat. An essentially fine copy of this rare playscript with holographic red pencil corrections [of uncertain origin, likely Williams or Wood's] suggesting a move of Brick's line: "I might be impotent - Maggie" from 3-39 to the close at 3-40, adding a line for Margaret [Maggie the cat]: "I'm not afraid" & then "Curtain"; the text unrevised or revised does not appear in any later published editions. This very early unsanitized pre-New York playscript contains the original lewd "Elephant Joke" [Texas 14, 15: Parker 484-5] 3-31 with Brick's uproarious laughter which Kazan gradually eliminated from successive drafts but which was incorporated into the original Philadelphia play tryouts. 'Cat's' Brick & Maggie originated in the short story "Three Players of a Summer Game," first published in The New Yorker, November 1, 1952 which Williams developed into the play. In late 1954, the Playwrights Company agreed to produce Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & named Elia Kazan as director who suggested revisions to the script, asking Williams to rewrite the third act for Broadway. The play opened March 25, 1955, & the revised ending has engendered an ongoing debate over its correctness that remains to this day. New Directions published the first edition in book form later that year with both Williams' original version of the third act & the Broadway version, with a "Note of Explanation" discussing the circumstances of the revision. The original Kazan directed theatrical performance, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, & blues greats Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman starred in the film version. A very early state of this Pulitzer winning Williams masterpiece. $39500.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Review
Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. -- Howard Kissel, The Daily News
The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions. -- Ken Furtado, Echo Magazine, 23 September 2004
[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is [Williams'] most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation. -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Product Description
The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams' essay "Person-to-Person," Williams' notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author's life.
One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Belafonte Folk Song Book
 | The Belafonte Folk Song Book, Songs of the People with Commentary |
Here are 22 folk songs arranged for voice, piano, & guitar with lyrics. In addition to the music, Harry Belafonte has provided commentary about each of the songs. Titles: Angelique-o Bald-headed woman Bamotsweri Brown-skin gal Cu cu ru cu cu paloma Day-O Dont ever love me Go down, Ol Hannah Im goin away In the evenin Mama Its the same the whole world over Jamaica farewell John Henry Judy Drownded Jump down, spin around Kingston market The marching saints Matilda Michael row the boat ashore My Lord, what a morning Scarlet ribbons Scratch, scratch
Friday, November 19, 2010
The story of the blues, Volume 2 By Paul Oliver
Pages 129,131,174
Title
The story of the blues, Volume 2
[Marshall F. Granros collection]
Author
Paul Oliver
Edition
4, illustrated
Publisher
Chilton Book Co., 1969
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
22 Jul 2009
Length
176 pages
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Down Home guide to the blues By Frank Scott
| Buy This Book | The Down Home Guide to the Blues |
From Library Journal
This book is an outgrowth of Down Home Music 's mail-order catalog. Thirty-five hundred blues records, cassettes, and compact discs are listed, along with brief reviews and biographical information on the artists. The author has a genuine reverence for the blues and is unafraid to criticize poor material. The periods and styles covered range from the country blues of the 1920s to Robert Cray's latest release. Many items listed are vintage recordings reissued by foreign labels, while the newer material is often from small independent labels. You won't find these recordings at the local K-Mart, so the interested patron will appreciate the ordering information supplied. The recent rebirth of interest in this long-neglected, distinctly American artform makes this a valuable addition to any library.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
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.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Country Blues
| | The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) |
The Country Blues: Roots of Jazz, Samuel B. Charters, From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues. On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world of the country bluesman--that lone black performer accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich reflection of his own emotional life. Virtually rewriting the history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of rock and roll.His carefully-researched biographies of near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Tampa Red--coupled with his perceptive discussions of their recordings--pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins--point up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues.
Synopsis:
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, More...
and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world of the country bluesman--that lone black performer accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich reflection of his own emotional life.Virtually rewriting the history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of rock and roll. His carefully-researched biographies of near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Tampa Red--coupled with his perceptive discussions of their recordings--pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins--point up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues
The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) (ISBN: 0306800144 / 0-306-80014-4)
Charters, Samuel B.
Monday, November 15, 2010
The Art of jazz: ragtime to bebop By Martin T. Williams
On Pages 7, 9, 252
 | The Art of Jazz: Ragtime to Bebop (Da Capo Paperback) |
A collection of writings on jazz deals with the major areas and personalities of this musical style
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Volume 8 By Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen
Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Volume 8
Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen
Author
Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen
Publisher
K.E. Knudsen, 1965
Original from
the University of Virginia
Digitized
26 Jan 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
American folk masters: the National Heritage Fellows By Steve Siporin, Michel Monteaux, Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)
On Pages 128, 234, 245
| Buy This Book | American Folk Masters: The National Heritage Fellows |
American Folk Masters celebrates the lives and work of nearly 150 National Heritage Fellows, named since 1982 as exemplary practitioners of traditional folk arts. Sometimes likened to Japan's Living National Treasures, the Fellows are selected each year by the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts for their achievements in a wide variety of visual and performing folk arts. The National Heritage Fellows come from Maine and Hawaii, from Alaska and Puerto Rico, and from most states in between. A random roll call of even a few of their names - Duff Severe, Periklis Halkias, Canray Fontenot, Alice New Holy Blue Legs - reflects America's rich ethnic diversity. And the same diversity characterizes the arts the Fellows practice, which range from blues music, pottery, tap dancing, and lace making to Lakota quillwork, Sicilian marionette theater, African-American story-telling, and Hawaiian quiltmaking. Published on the tenth anniversary of the National Heritage Fellowships, this volume was inspired by an exhibition organized by the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Its fifty full-page color photographs show the compelling, beautifully crafted objects made by the visual artists among the Fellows, while its black-and-white portraits and personal quotations capture the fascinating backgrounds and personalities of these people. Steve Siporin, folklorist and Associate Professor at Utah State University, has written a lively yet thoughtful essay that considers the Fellows as inheritors, innovators, and conservers of tradition. There are contributions by Bess Lomax Hawes, Director of the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts (1977-92), and BarreToelken, Professor of Folklore at Utah State University. A comprehensive illustrated Directory of all the Fellows from the last ten years includes an invaluable bibliography, discography, and filmography. The first full-length study of a groundbreaking program, American Folk Masters has much to offer anyone who values our national heritage. Whether descendants of the original Native peoples or members of the newest immigrant group, we can all learn from these consummate artists who are keeping our folk traditions alive today.
From Publishers Weekly
The melting-pot image of America belies the crazy-quilt ethnic diversity that continues to flourish, as revealed in this folk sampler, the catalogue of a recent exhibition at Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art. A Pueblo potter, Creole and Appalachian fiddlers, a Czech American egg painter, African American tap dancers and singers, a Finnish-American accordionist, cowboy poets, Latino muralists and a Laotian-born shamanic dancer are among the nearly 150 folk artists and performers profiled. All of them were selected since 1982 as grant recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' Folk Arts Program. In his celebration of multiculturalism, accompanied by 160 plates (50 in color), Siporin, a folklorist at Utah State University, interprets these vernacular artists as both innovators and conservers of tradition. The artists' own modest, moving statements reflect their commitment to forging a community-based aesthetic.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title
American folk masters: the National Heritage Fellows
Authors
Steve Siporin, Michel Monteaux, Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)
Photographs by
Michel Monteaux
Illustrated by
Michel Monteaux
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
H.N. Abrams, 1992
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
3 Jul 2009
ISBN
0810919176, 9780810919174
Length
256 pages
Friday, November 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Auto Mechanics Blues - Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee 1915 - 1996 recorded "Auto Mechanic Blues" in 28/5/1947. Toured and recorded with harmonica player Sonny Terry through 1980's. But on this track he's with New Orleans boogie woogie piano man Jack Dupree, and early jazz drummer Walter "Baby" Dodds.
Talk about love.
Lyrics:
Your motor's missing* lady let me look up under your hood.
Your motor's missing* lady I've got to look under your hood.
Well I've got a feeling* that I can do your motor some good.
Your battery needs charging* your plugs ain't firing at all.
Your battery needs charging* your plugs ain't firing at all.
Your rear is very dry it's completely out of oil.
Your gears have been striped your transmission is awful dry.
Your gears have been striped your transmission is awful dry.
Let me be your mechanic then you'll be satisfied.
Who checked this motor before you brought it to me?
It's all out of time and everything.
That ain't no way to take care of a car.
Got to change the oil even if your old*** man ain't around.
You** should change every thousand miles if you** want to keep the motor running* good.
My prices ain't high I can make this motor go.
My prices ain't high baby I can make this motor go.
When I get through grinding* your valves you'll be ready to ride some more.
I'll give you a number one job because**** I like your little machine.
I'll give you a number one job because**** I like your little machine.
It's not your generator mama you been burning* bad gasoline.
* drop the g
** drop the ou
*** drop the d
**** drop the be
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Rolling Stone jazz and blues album guide By John Swenson
On Pages 461, 740
 | The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide |
The most comprehensive guide to jazz and blues recordings in print, including reviews of more than ten thousand albums. An essential book for any music fan's library.
Title
Rolling Stone jazz and blues album guide
Author
John Swenson
Editor
John Swenson
Publisher
Random House, 1999
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
11 Sep 2009
ISBN
0679768734, 9780679768739
Length
781 pages
Saturday, October 30, 2010
American national biography: Supplement, Issue 2 By Mark Christopher Carnes
 | American National Biography: Supplement 2 (American National Biography Supplement) |
To be included in the 24-volume set of ANB (1999), a person had to have died before 1996; the first supplement adds 400 biographies, primarily of people who died between 1996 and early 2001. Among those making their first appearance in ANB are George Burns, Eldridge Cleaver, Greer Garson, Barbara Jordan, Stanley Kubrick, and Walter Payton. Some individuals (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diamond Jim Brady, Eliot Ness) missing from the original volumes have also been added. The "Index by Occupations and Realms of Renown" has been slightly reformatted and encompasses entries from both the supplement and its parent set. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Review
Praise for ANB Supplement 1: "Picking up where the American National Biography left off...Supplement 1 maintains the ANB's format and quality throughout....Every library holding ANB will want Supplement 1; those lacking the original set should reconsider."—Choice
"Politicians, entertainers, writers, scientists and outlaws who have helped shape our nation are depicted in this excellent massive work. Highly Recommended."--History Media Review
Friday, October 29, 2010
Living blues, Issues 155-160 By University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture
On Pages 111, 100, 95
Title
Living blues, Issues 155-160
Author
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Publisher
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, 1997
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
21 Jul 2009
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Black music By Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor
On Pages 33, 68, 81
Buy This Book
An annotated list of more than thirteen hundred recordings features anthologies and works demonstrating the techniques, innovators, and leading stylists of blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, and reggae music
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hard travelin': the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie By Robert Santelli, Emily Davidson
 | Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie (American Music Masters) |
Review
"[An] excellent collection . . . Undergraduates and general readers will enjoy and benefit from the balance of personal and academic commentaries. Specialists will particularly appreciate Guy Logsdon's extensive bibliography and discography." --Choice
Review
"Woody had faults, but he was also an extraordinarily thoughtful and original talent. He had the genius of simplicity. When I first heard 'This Land Is Your Land' I didn't perceieve how famous it would become. I thought to myself, 'That song is just too simple.' I actually believed it was one of Woody's lesser efforts. Shows you how wrong you can be . . . My guess is that if Woody stayed healthy, over the years he would have made up maybe twenty versions of 'So Long' because of its great chorus. He might have had a Dustbowl version, a Joe McCarthy version, a Civil Rights version, a Vietnam version. He might even have had a Romald Reagan or a Bill Clinton version. Who knows?" (Pete Seeger )
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sonny Terry's Country Blues Harmonica By Sonny Terry, Kent Cooper, Fred Palmer
If you want to do it the way Sonny did this is the book for you. Of all the harp books I have this one is the most clearly laid out and easy to follow. Clear annotation shows which holes to blow/suck ...
I bought this book when I found it in a local sheet music store, even though it was quite expensive. The first half of this book is about Sonny's life. He tells the story and it is quite interesting. I would think this is the most valuable thing about the book. After this, Sonny's technique is briefly explained, and then there are some songs tabulated for the reader to play them. I found this tab very hard to understand, IT DOESN'T HAVE STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION, and that makes it very hard. Besides, Sonny's style is complex. It comes with a vinil recording. I FOUND THE BOOK VERY INTERESTING, AS LONG AS YOUR MAIN FOCUS IS TO LEARN ABOUT SONNY. If you want to learn to play harp I wouldn't recomend it. There are better books for beginners
Sunday, October 24, 2010
All music guide: the definitive guide to popular music By Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
 | All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide To Popular Music, 4th Edition |
Book overview
From folk to avant-garde to world music, this fun-to-browse book easily guides readers to more than 20,000 great recordings by over 4,000 artists through thorough reviews and ratings. Arranged by genre (the book covers 16 styles in all), each section provides informed essays on how the music evolved and its various styles, intriguing artist biographies, and insightful reviews and ratings of the top recordings. The lives and work of major artists are described in depth. Easy-to-read "music maps" chart the development of each genre, its key players, and their influences. Now in its fourth edition, this authoritative reference highlights "essential collection" albums as well as "first purchase" recordings to help listeners buy CDs. Nearly 1,500 info-packed pages! "Makes you delirious with knowledge." - Entertainment Weekly "The most useful single volume your money can buy." – Mojo
Editorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 2001
Given the comprehensiveness, popularity, and timeliness of the free All Music Guide web site (www.allmusic.com), one wonders whether an abridged print version is needed. Still, it's hard to ignore the pleasures of browsing this highly entertaining tome, now in its fourth edition, which provides guidance on the best music from virtually all popular (i.e., nonclassical) genres. Over 20,000 albums and 4000 artists are represented from the worlds of rock, blues, country, jazz, rap, folk, gospel, reggae, avant-garde, and more. The book is arranged into 16 genre chapters, each beginning with an overview of the genre and its various subgenres or "styles." (Tabs on the page edges would have facilitated thumbing to a particular genre.) Artists are listed alphabetically within each chapter, making the comprehensive index crucial for determining the genre under which an artist is listed. Unfortunately, the index is off by a few pages for artists in the fourth chapter (Gospel) through the end. Each artist entry includes vital statistics, styles played, a biographical sketch, and a selective list of albums. All albums are rated from one to five stars, with additional symbols denoting recommended first purchases and albums that are essential representations of a genre. Signed reviews from scores of contributors accompany the most significant titles. (Beware: an album's rating and review do not always jibe. Also, ratings and reviews in the book may differ from those found on the web site for the same album.) Other features include music maps (a sort of family tree outlining the history and key artists of a genre or style) and sidebar articles on topics such as Caribbean music styles and English and Celtic folk instruments. While still selective, the All Music guides (there are also separate volumes on rock, jazz, blues, country, and electronica) tend to provide more detail and analysis of an artist's oeuvre than the MusicHound, Rough Guide, and Rolling Stone tomes. All in all, patrons are better off using the truly comprehensive web site, but this is the best of the print sources. Recommended. Lloyd Jansen, Stockton-San Joaquin Cty. P.L., CA
Title
All music guide: the definitive guide to popular music
All Music Guide Required Listening
All Music Guides
All Music Guide: The Expert's Guide to the Best Recordings
Authors
Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Editors
Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Edition
4, illustrated, revised
Publisher
Backbeat Books/All Media Guide, 2001
ISBN
0879306270, 9780879306274
Length
1491 pages
Rock record: a collectors' directory of rock albums and musicians By Terry Hounsome
| Buy This Book | Rock Record: A Collector's Directory of Rock Albums and Musicians/Side A |
Title
Rock record: a collectors' directory of rock albums and musicians
Author
Terry Hounsome
Edition
3
Publisher
Facts on File, 1987
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
19 Sep 2009
ISBN
0816017549, 9780816017546
Length
738 pages
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement by Alan B. Govenar
 | Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement |
Book overview
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier, both literally and metaphorically.
This collection chronicles the search for freedom and opportunity and the achievement of success in a wide variety of fields. The contributors all pushed beyond self-imposed or culturally enforced boundaries to pursue their dreams and ambitions. They include Mark Dean, an IBM vice president and member of the Inventors Hall of Fame, who holds three of the original patents upon which the personal computer is based; the civil-rights attorney Oliver W. Hill, one of the architects of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case; the classical pianist and museum founder Josephine Love; and L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of slaves who became the first African American governor of Virginia.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and featuring an incisive introduction by Alan Govenar, Untold Glory is both an important addition to the field of African American history and an engaging, eye-opening look at some of the nation’s most daring, innovative, and influential pioneers.
Editorial Review - Reed Business Information (c) 2006
This collection of 27 alphabetically arranged interviews focuses on the power of determination in confronting and overcoming discrimination. With birth dates ranging from 1907 to 1957, these ordinary people provide a cumulative picture of the changing decades. (Most of the interviews took place in 2005, although several are from the late '90s, and one dates to 1980). Among them are a bank president, baseball player, welfare rights organizer, tap dancer, engineer and blues musician. Most of the subjects are not well known (with the exception of painter Jacob Lawrence and former governor, now mayor Douglas Wilder), since Govenar is interested in untold stories. Unfortunately, few of them break out of the author's rigid format, which focuses on the impact of discrimination and segregation in their lives, lending sameness to each conversation. Still, there are some fresh moments: an entrepreneur's bout with sickle cell anemia offers a graphic portrait of that illness; a mathematician's early life as a nun and an actor's picture of Hollywood in the '30s provide fascinating glimpses of those milieus. By the end, Govenar's voices offer an eye-opening corrective for familiar stereotypes of African-Americans. (Jan. 9)
Title
Untold glory: African Americans in pursuit of freedom, opportunity, and achievement
Author
Alan B. Govenar
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2007
ISBN
0767921178, 9780767921176
Length
400 pages
Friday, October 22, 2010
Long steel rail: the railroad in American folksong By Norm Cohen, David Cohen
 | Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.) (Music in American Life) |
"Norm Cohen's anthology of railroad folksongs will delight anyone smitten with the romance of the rails." Newsday "A masterpiece." American Music "Meticulously researched and clearly written, Long Steel Rail is now the sourcebook for American railroad folksongs." New York Folklore "A delightfully readable book for any armchair railroad engineer." -- Choice "Norm Cohen has not only filled a gap, he has applied mature scholarship, historical sensibility, enthusiasm, and love to produce a major work on folk lore, folk song, and the railroads' pervasive impact on popular culture." Railroad History "People looking for information about early recordings of railroad songs from both Anglo-American and African American traditions will want to use this 710-page book as a primary resource. Cohen has demonstrated exceptional skills as a researcher, bibliographer, and discographer... Folklorists and American music researchers ... should be delighted that this classic work with updated citations, references, and historical information is once again available." Arkansas Review
Product Description
"Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition. "
Product Details
- Paperback: 768 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 2 Sub edition (April 17, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0252068815
- ISBN-13: 978-0252068812
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