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

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

Hardcover: 848 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Library Ed edition (May 12, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0195222024

ISBN-13: 978-0195222029

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

Black music By Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor

On Pages 33, 68, 81

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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

Hardcover: 262 pages

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc (October 1978)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0872871479

ISBN-13: 978-0872871472

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 )

Paperback: 280 pages

Publisher: Wesleyan Press/ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum; 1st edition (November 19, 1999)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0819563919

ISBN-13: 978-0819563910

Sonny Terry's Country Blues Harmonica By Sonny Terry, Kent Cooper, Fred Palmer

 

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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 ...

Paperback: 96 pages

Publisher: Music Sales Corp (March 1976)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0825601665

ISBN-13: 978-0825601668

 

 

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

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

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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

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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

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

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. "

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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

Elwood's blues: interviews with the blues legends & stars By Dan Aykroyd, Ben Manilla

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As members of the cast and writing staff of Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd and John Belushi introduced Jake and Elwood Blues — the Blues Brothers — to an enthusiastic public. Elwood's Blues is an entertaining and informative collection of conversations with the legends and rising stars of blues and rock music, drawn from the popular syndicated radio series The House of Blues Radio Hour. Host Dan Aykroyd, in character as Elwood Blues of the legendary Blues Brothers, has interviewed over 900 blues and rock greats since 1993. This book compiles the best of those, including discussions with living legends B.B. King and Buddy Guy, past masters John Lee Hooker and Stevie Ray Vaughan, rising stars Keb' Mo' and Susan Tedeschi, and blues-rooted rock stars such as Robert Plant and Bill Wyman. Elwood's interviews are candid and relaxed. The musical guests discuss their music, life on the road, and a variety of other subjects. Elwood's Blues will appeal to every blues fan.

Title
Elwood's blues: interviews with the blues legends & stars
Book Series

Authors
Dan Aykroyd, Ben Manilla

Edition
illustrated

Publisher
Backbeat Books, 2004

ISBN
0879308095, 9780879308094

Length
260 pages

Blues für Dummies By Lonnie Brooks, Cub Koda, Wayne Baker Brooks

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Jazz on record: a critical guide to the first 50 years, 1917-1967 By Charles Fox, Albert J. McCarthy

On Pages 193, 284, 321

Title
Jazz on record: a critical guide to the first 50 years, 1917-1967

Authors
Charles Fox, Albert J. McCarthy

Publisher
Hanover Books, 1968

Original from
the University of Michigan

Digitized
1 Mar 2007

Length
416 pages

Subjects
Jazz
Jazz Discography
Jazz musicians
Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz

The Folk directory By English Folk Dance and Song Society

On Pages 25, 50, 51

Title
The Folk directory

Author
English Folk Dance and Song Society

Publisher
English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1965

Original from
Indiana University

Digitized
21 Jul 2009

Length
208 pages

Subjects
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folk songs
Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
Music / History & Criticism

Who's who in rock music By William York

Title
Who's who in rock music

Author
William York

Publisher
Atomic Press, 1978

Original from
the University of Michigan

Digitized
30 Aug 2007

Length
260 pages

Subjects
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
Rock music

Encyclopedia of the blues By Gérard Herzhaft, Paul Harris, Jerry Haussler, Anton J. Mikofsky

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As the title suggests, this volume is an alphabetical look at blues styles and artists from the early part of this century to the present. The biographical entries feature thumbnail sketches, a critical evaluation, and, frequently, photographs. A bibliography is included for further research, and a discography features an album from each of the entries. One minor problem is the lumping together of certain artists by region, giving them less attention than those who appear as a single-name entry. Moreover, placing most Caucasians in a section labeled "white blues" creates more of an apparent racial barrier than most blues musicians would likely accept. Still, this is a sound introduction for libraries with nothing on the blues; libraries that already have titles such as Robert Santelli's The Big Book of Blues (LJ 1/94) can pass.?Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press; 2 Sub edition (July 1, 1997)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1557284520

ISBN-13: 978-1557284525

The art of jazz: essays on the nature and development of jazz edited by Martin T. Williams

appearing on page 7, 9,

Title
The art of jazz: essays on the nature and development of jazz
Black culture collection
An Evergreen book

Editor
Martin T. Williams

Publisher
Oxford University Press, 1959

Length
248 pages

Notes By Music Library Association, Eva Judd O'Meara, Charles Warren Fox, Richard Synyer Hill, Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization)

Appearing on page 621, 605,

Title
Notes

Authors
Music Library Association, Eva Judd O'Meara, Charles Warren Fox, Richard Synyer Hill, Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization)

Published
1960

A blues bibliography By Robert Ford

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this bibliography is valuable for its coverage of African American newspapers and many obscure blues publications. It may be suitable for larger music reference collections, especially those serving advanced students and scholars -- Choice, J. C. Wanser, Hiram College

Product Description

A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis.

The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.

Hardcover: 1400 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (June 25, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0415978874

ISBN-13: 978-0415978873

Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 2.3 inches

Blues singers: biographies of 50 legendary artists of the early 20th century By David Dicaire

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Product Description

This reference volume is intended for both the casual and the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. Beginning with the pioneering Mississippi Delta bluesmen, the book then follows the spread of the genre to the city, in the section on the Chicago Blues School. The third segment covers the Texas blues tradition; the fourth, the great blueswomen; and the fifth, the genre's development outside its main schools. The styles covered range from Virginia-Piedmont to Bentonia and from barrelhouse to boogie-woogie. The main text is augmented by substantial discographies and a lengthy bibliography.

About the Author

David Dicaire is a writer in Leamington, Ontario.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786406062
• ISBN-13: 978-0786406067

The Devil's music: a history of the blues By Giles Oakley

Title
The Devil's music: a history of the blues

Author
Giles Oakley

Edition
2, illustrated

Publisher
Da Capo Press, 1997

ISBN
0306807432, 9780306807435

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Length
311 pages

Subjects
Blues (Music)
Blues (Music) - History and criticism
Blues (Music)/ History and criticism
Music / General
Music / Genres & Styles / Blues
Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
Music / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B
Music / History & Criticism
Music / Musical Instruments / Guitar
Music / Songbooks

Blues records, 1943-1970: a selective discography By Mike Leadbitter, Neil Slaven

Appearing on pages 371, 372, 440, 106, 606

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Title
Blues records, 1943-1970: a selective discography
Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography, Neil Slaven
Volume 1 of Blues Records 1943-1970
Issue 26 of Record Information Services consecutive publication
Volume 26 of Record information services

Authors
Mike Leadbitter, Neil Slaven

Editors
Mike Leadbitter, Neil Slaven

Edition
2

Publisher
Record Information Services, 1987

Original from
the University of Michigan

Digitized
Aug 28, 2007

ISBN
0907872077, 9780907872078

Length
798 pages

You Can Teach Yourself Harmonica By George Heaps-Nelson, Barbara Koehler

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Product Description

A wonderful, easy-to-understand beginning harmonica book for both folk and blues harmonica stylings. Several different styles are analyzed and representive tunes are given in each style. With the various sections the songs are roughly graded as to difficulty. An extra section examines some specialized techniques and introduces some harmonicas other then the standered ten-hole-twenty-reed diatonic harp (in the key of C) for which most of the songs in this book are written. All together, 41 harmonica arrangements are included. Lessons on the companion video are taught by Phil Duncan.

About the Author

Barbara Koehler grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. After she and her husband got married, they moved to Gainesville, Florida to operate a music store. It was also about this time that Barbara was learning the frailing style on the banjo (the old-time mountain style). She was studying with Eric Muller, the banjo instructor at her store, but there was a lack of instructional material for the frailing style. At a National Association of Music Merchants convention around 1974, Barbara and Mr. Muller met Mel Bay and asked if he had any books on frailing style. There were none at the time, so Mr. Bay suggested they write one. Barbara and Eric Muller then collaborated on their first title, Frailing the 5-String Banjo. This was one of Mel Bay Publications' first books to contain extensive photographs of folk musicians in their natural setting. George Heaps-Nelson was the harmonica teacher at the the Koehler's store while working in Ph.D. in Latin American History. George and Barbara also collaborated on two books, Folk & Blues Harmonica and You Can Teach Yourself® Harmonica. Currently, Barbara Koehler is a registered nurse in Tampa, FL working with alcohol and drug addicted people. She is also an antique dealer, with storefronts in several area malls. She has been married for 37 years and has three grandchildren.

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Product Details

• Library Binding: 136 pages
• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786657723
• ISBN-13: 978-0786657728

All music guide to the blues: the definitive guide to the blues By Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 754 pages
• Publisher: Backbeat Books; 3 edition (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879307366
• ISBN-13: 978-0879307363

Review

"Should be on every blues lover's list." -Blues Access "Easily the best blues guide...a real winner." -Real Blues

 

Product Description

Fully updated to reflect today's revitalized blues world, this guide is any blues fan's lifeline to the best blues past and present. It reviews and rates 7,000 recordings in all major styles across the blues map - from Delta blues to Louisiana, Memphis, Chicago, Texas, and beyond; from classic female singers to jump blues, blues slide guitar, blues in jazz, soul blues, blues-rock, modern acoustic and electric blues, and more. This fun and easy-to-use guide provides profiles of over 1,000 blues artists. Thirty historical essays plus supplemental "music maps" chart the roots and evolution of the blues, its various styles, instruments used, key artists, and more. The essays explore the blues from the Mississippi Delta to modern electric blues and everything in between.

The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People By Francis Davis

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Da Capo Press (September 2, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0306812967

ISBN-13: 978-0306812965

 

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Davis, music critic for the Atlantic, treats the history of the blues with an emphasis on his own involvement with this music. He believes that attempts to discover the origins of the blues, often based on simplistic theories about slavery and Africa, are inconclusive, and he stresses that the interaction between recordings and the actual music makes it difficult to follow the music's internal development. He touches on the issue of white involvement with the blues and concludes with an elaborate "Blues Timeline" showing how significant dates in blues history relate to developments in jazz, pop, theater and literature as well as to important events in American history, arts, sciences and technology. His impressionistic text rambles at times, but numerous passages on individual performers such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly and others are engaging, as are accounts of his trips to Memphis and Mississippi to see where it all began. Selected discography. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Since its origin in Mississippi before the turn of the century, the blues has been pronounced dead many times. Davis (music critic of the Atlantic) assures us that it "rises up like Lazarus every ten years or so." This book, published in advance of a three-part PBS companion series scheduled to air in the fall of 1995, is a great starting place in understanding the continued appeal of this uniquely American music. Moving from its roots in field hollers, work songs, spirituals, country reels, and Anglo-Scottish ballads to its present-day uses selling diet soda and laxatives, Davis profiles the major artists and the developmental changes of the music. An extensive discography and bibliography give ample resources for future exploration, while a "Blues Timeline" offers an at-a-glance overview of blues milestones in relation to corresponding events in art and history. This fine introduction to the blues is recommended for most libraries.
Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Rock is rhythm and blues: the impact of mass media By Lawrence N. Redd

Appearing On Pages 104, 105, 110, 102, 118

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Rock is Rhythm and Blues The Impact of Mass Media

Title
Rock is rhythm and blues: the impact of mass media

Author
Lawrence N. Redd

Publisher
Michigan State University Press, 1974

Original from
the University of Michigan

Digitized
Feb 27, 2007

Length
167 pages

Subjects
African Americans
Afro-Americans
Communication
History and criticism
Mass media
Music
Music / Musical Instruments / General
Popular music
Social Science / Media Studies
Social aspects
United States
blacks

American folklore edited by Peter Poulakis

Appears on Pages 21

 

Book overview

Tall tales, uniquely American, about New Englanders, Negroes, Indians, and frontiersmen and tales and ballads about such heroes as Mike Fink, Jim Bowie, John Henry, Casey Jones, and others.

Title
American folklore
The American character series
Volume 16 of Scribner school paperbacks

Editor
Peter Poulakis

Compiled by
Peter Poulakis

Illustrated by
Marian Ebert

Publisher
Scribner, 1969

Original from
Indiana University

Digitized
Jul 1, 2009

Length
223 pages

Subjects
Folklore
Folklore/ United States
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
United States

Sonny Terry comp and train rhythm

Folk Music: More Than a Song by Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton

Sonny & Brownie Appear On Pages: 246, 248,

• Pub. Date: December 1976
• Publisher: Crowell, Thomas Y. Company
• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN-13: 9780690011593
• ISBN: 0690011598

Folk Music: More Than a Song

The country blues By Samuel Barclay Charters

Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee appear on pages

12, 221, 233, 192, 214, 228

 

Book overview

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.

• Pub. Date: August 1975
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Format: Paperback, 288pp

• Series: Roots of Jazz Ser.
• ISBN-13: 9780306706783
• ISBN: 0306706784

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The Rolling stone encyclopedia of rock & roll

Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee appear on pages:

353, 982, 989, 239, 868

Paperback: 1136 pages

Publisher: Fireside; Original edition (October 30, 2001)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0743201205

ISBN-13: 978-0743201209

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The illustrated encyclopedia of jazz By Brian Case, Stan Britt, Trisha Palmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brownie Mcghee is mentioned twice in this book.

Page 32 and Page 190

Publisher: Harmony; 3 edition (November 13, 1987)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0517564432

ISBN-13: 978-0517564431

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Brownie Mcghee Dies – A Poem By Lyn Lifshin

Red River blues: the blues tradition in the Southeast By Bruce Bastin