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Fingerstyle Bluesgitarre (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph Alexander Fingerstyle Bluesgitarre (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Slide-Gitarren-Solo-Techniken - Lerne Hot Country Hybridpicking, Banjo Rolls, Licks & Techniken (German, Paperback): Levi Clay,... Slide-Gitarren-Solo-Techniken - Lerne Hot Country Hybridpicking, Banjo Rolls, Licks & Techniken (German, Paperback)
Levi Clay, Joseph Alexander
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Sound, Two Worlds - The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990 (Hardcover): Michael Rauhut One Sound, Two Worlds - The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990 (Hardcover)
Michael Rauhut
R3,966 Discovery Miles 39 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For all of its apparent simplicity-a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character-blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sound, Two Worlds examines the development of the blues in East and West Germany, demonstrating the multiple ways social and political conditions can shape the meaning of music. Based on new archival research and conversations with key figures, this comparative study provides a cultural, historical, and musicological account of the blues and the impact of the genre not only in the two Germanys, but also in debates about the history of globalization.

Whose Blues? - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (Hardcover): Adam Gussow Whose Blues? - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (Hardcover)
Adam Gussow
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues", as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music", as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.

Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Paperback, 4th ed.): Daphne Duval Harrison (African-American Studies Department,... Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Paperback, 4th ed.)
Daphne Duval Harrison (African-American Studies Department, University of Maryland, USA)
R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A contribution to the history of the blues in particular and of Afro-American culture in general, new information about a remarkable set of assertive, creative women as well as new insights into the musical heritage they have left behind. Sippie Wallace, Edith Wilson, Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter are the collective focus of this work - four influential blues singers with diverse styles, who were big in the 1920s and were still performing in the 1980s. Writing from a firm black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, and heartbreaks in the lives of the first popular women blues artists.

Soul of the Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland (Paperback): Charles Farley Soul of the Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland (Paperback)
Charles Farley
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland relates how Bland, along with longtime friend B. B. King, and other members of the loosely knit group who called themselves the Beale Streeters, forged a new electrified blues style in Memphis in the early 1950s. Combining elements of Delta blues, southern gospel, big-band jazz, and country and western music, Bland and the Beale Streeters were at the heart of a revolution. This biography traces how Bland scored hit after hit, placing more than sixty songs on the R&B charts throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. A four-time Grammy nominee, he received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Blues Foundation, as well as the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. He was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame. This biography at last heralds one of America's great music makers.

O Guia Completo para Tocar Blues na Guitarra Livro Tre?s - Ale?m das Pentato?nicas (Portuguese, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph... O Guia Completo para Tocar Blues na Guitarra Livro Três - Além das Pentatônicas (Portuguese, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicago Blues Gitarre Lernen (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Andi Saitenhieb Chicago Blues Gitarre Lernen (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Andi Saitenhieb; Edited by Joseph Alexander
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Das CAGED System und 100 Licks fu?r Blues-Gitarre (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph Alexander Das CAGED System und 100 Licks für Blues-Gitarre (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charlie n'est pas mort en vain - Le blues en heritage (French, Paperback): Daniel Leon Charlie n'est pas mort en vain - Le blues en heritage (French, Paperback)
Daniel Leon
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bluesgitarren-Solo fu?r Anfa?nger (German, Paperback): Joseph Alexander Bluesgitarren-Solo für Anfänger (German, Paperback)
Joseph Alexander
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gui?a completa para tocar guitarra blues Libro 2 - Fraseo melo?dico (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph Alexander Guía completa para tocar guitarra blues Libro 2 - Fraseo melódico (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La gui?a completa para tocar guitarra blues Libro 3 - Ma?s alla? de las pentato?nicas (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph... La guía completa para tocar guitarra blues Libro 3 - Más allá de las pentatónicas (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Delta Blues Slide-Gitarre - Ein vollstandiger Leitfaden fur authentische akustische Blues Slide-Gitarrentechnik (German,... Delta Blues Slide-Gitarre - Ein vollstandiger Leitfaden fur authentische akustische Blues Slide-Gitarrentechnik (German, Paperback)
Levi Clay, Joseph Alexander; Edited by Tim Pettingale
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Mayall - The Blues Crusader (Hardcover): Dinu Logoz John Mayall - The Blues Crusader (Hardcover)
Dinu Logoz
R967 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R309 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Mayall is an icon in the world of blues music and the Godfather of British blues. A pioneering musician, blues promoter and talent scout for over 50 years, his uncanny knack of picking young, talented musicians and then nurturing them in his bands is the stuff of legend. Under his guidance as leader and sometimes father figure, his groups developed into a blues school of learning par excellence. Many young members became huge stars later on, among them brilliant musicians such as Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mick Taylor and drummer Jon Hiseman. In Mayalls bands, an incredible 130 musicians have done their apprenticeship and earned their spurs. Top bands like Cream, Fleetwood Mac or Colosseum would never have existed without his inspiration and guidance. Now 80 and showing no signs of slowing down, John Mayall has an amazing back catalogue totalling some 86 albums, and has played over 5000 live concerts all over the world. He is still rated as one of the most influential and respected figures in the international blues and rock scene. This is the first detailed biography of Mayall, illuminating not only his life and career, but also providing deeper, more detailed insights into the development of his many fellow musicians. It follows the young Mayall from the early days of jamming in his tree house as a teenager to the vast tours he undertakes today. Even die-hard blues fans will find a lot of undiscovered anecdotes and stories here, as the book covers all phases of the Mayalls career and not just the 60s.

Say No to the Devil (Hardcover): Ian Zack Say No to the Devil (Hardcover)
Ian Zack
R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music." Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead - who took lessons with Davis - claimed his musical ability "transcended any common notion of a bluesman." And the folklorist Alan Lomax called him "one of the really great geniuses of American instrumental music." But you won't find Davis alongside blues legends Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite almost universal renown among his contemporaries, Davis lives today not so much in his own work but through covers of his songs by Dylan, Jackson Browne, and many others, as well as in the untold number of students whose lives he influenced. The first biography of Davis, Say No to the Devil restores "the Rev's" remarkable story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with many of Davis' former students, Ian Zack takes readers through Davis' difficult beginning as the blind son of sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South to his decision to become an ordained Baptist minister and his move to New York in the early 1940s, where he scraped out a living singing and preaching on street corners and in storefront churches in Harlem. There, he gained entry into a circle of musicians that included, among many others, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Dave Van Ronk. But in spite of his tremendous musical achievements, Davis never gained broad recognition from an American public that wasn't sure what to make of his trademark blend of gospel, ragtime, street preaching, and the blues. His personal life was also fraught, troubled by struggles with alcohol, women, and deteriorating health. Zack chronicles this remarkable figure in American music, helping us to understand how he taught and influenced a generation of musicians.

La gui?a completa para tocar guitarra de blues Libro 1 - Guitarra ri?tmica (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Joseph Alexander La guía completa para tocar guitarra de blues Libro 1 - Guitarra rítmica (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Joseph Alexander
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blues All Day Long - The Jimmy Rogers Story (Paperback): Wayne Everett Goins Blues All Day Long - The Jimmy Rogers Story (Paperback)
Wayne Everett Goins; Foreword by Kim Wilson
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic singles "That's All Right" and "Walking By Myself."
In Blues All Day Long, Wayne Everett Goins mines seventy-five hours of interviews with Rogers' family, collaborators, and peers to follow a life spent in the blues. Goins' account takes Rogers from recording Chess classics and barnstorming across the South to a late-in-life renaissance that included new music, entry into the Blues Hall of Fame, and high profile tours with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. Informed and definitive, Blues All Day Long fills a gap in twentieth century music history with the story of one of the blues' eminent figures and one of the genre's seminal bands.

Jazz Bebop Blues Gitarre (German, Paperback): Tim Pettingale Jazz Bebop Blues Gitarre (German, Paperback)
Tim Pettingale
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy (Hardcover): Kevin D. Greene The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy (Hardcover)
Kevin D. Greene
R2,878 Discovery Miles 28 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William ""Big Bill"" Broonzy (1893@-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the north, to its eventual international acclaim. Along the way, Broonzy adopted an evolving personal and professional identity, tailoring his self-presentation to the demands of the place and time. His remarkable professional fluidity mirrored the range of expectations from his audiences, whose ideas about race, national belonging, identity, and the blues were refracted through Broonzy as if through a prism. Kevin D. Greene argues that Broonzy's popular success testifies to his ability to navigate the cultural expectations of his different audiences. However, this constant reinvention came at a personal and professional cost. Using Broonzy's multifaceted career, Greene situates blues performance at the center of understanding African American self-presentation and racial identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Through Broonzy's life and times, Greene assesses major themes and events in African American history, including the Great Migration, urbanization, and black expatriate encounters with European culture consumers. Drawing on a range of historical source materials as well as oral histories and personal archives held by Broonzy's son, Greene perceptively interrogates how notions of race, gender, and audience reception continue to shape concepts of folk culture and musical authenticity.

100 licks cla?sicos de blues para guitarra (Spanish, Paperback): Joseph Alexander 100 licks clásicos de blues para guitarra (Spanish, Paperback)
Joseph Alexander
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decolonizing Revelation - A Spatial Reading of the Blues (Hardcover): Rufus Burnett Decolonizing Revelation - A Spatial Reading of the Blues (Hardcover)
Rufus Burnett
R3,395 Discovery Miles 33 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At a time when ideas like "post-racial society" and "#BlackLivesMatter" occupy the same space, scholars of black American faith are provided a unique opportunity to regenerate and imagine theological frameworks that confront the epistemic effects of racialization and its confluence with the theological imagination. Decolonizing Revelation contributes to this task by rethinking or "taking a second look" at the cultural production of the blues. Unlike other examinations of the blues that privilege the hermeneutic of race, this work situates the blues spatially, offering a transracial interpretation that looks to establish an option for disentangling racial ideology from the theological imagination. This book dislocates race in particular, and modernity in general, as the primary means by which God's self-disclosure is read across human history. Rather than looking to the experience of antiblack racism as revelational, the work looks to a people group, blues people, and their spatial, sonic, and sensual activities. Following the basic theological premise that God is a God of life, Burnett looks to the spaces where blues life occurs to construct a decolonial option for a theology of revelation.

Charley Patton - Voice of the Mississippi Delta (Paperback): Robert Sacre Charley Patton - Voice of the Mississippi Delta (Paperback)
Robert Sacre; Foreword by William Ferris
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, 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 Liege 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.

The British Blues Network - Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity (Paperback): Andrew Kellett The British Blues Network - Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity (Paperback)
Andrew Kellett
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization helped create a commercially successful rock idiom that gave rise to some of the most famous British groups of the era, including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, and Led Zeppelin. What empowered these white, middle-class British men to identify with and claim aspects of the musical idiom of African-American blues musicians? The British Blues Network examines the role of British narratives of masculinity and power in the postwar era of decolonization and national decline that contributed to the creation of this network, and how its members used the tropes, vocabulary, and mythology of African-American blues traditions to forge their own musical identities.

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