Related Books

Whose Blues?
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Adam Gussow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-28 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not l
Frog Mountain Blues
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Charles Bowden
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Discusses the development of Tucson, Arizona, and its impact on local environment, describes the beauty and fragility of the Catalina Mountains, and argues that
Blues - Philosophy for Everyone
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Jesse R. Steinberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-03 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of the tria
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Allan Moore
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century cultur
Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Steve Cushing
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-15 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participa