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The Land Where Blues Began (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Land Where Blues Began (Paperback, New Ed)
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Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and
unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the
blues into the mainstream "Without Lomax it's possible that there
would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles
and no Stones and no Velvet Underground." -Brian Eno A
self-described "song-hunter," the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled
the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and '40s, armed with primitive
recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage.
Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax
gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy
Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings
with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is both a fascinating
recollection of a pivotal time in American music history and an
intimate portrait of the struggles blues musicians faced in the Jim
Crow South. The blues were an organic expression of Black humanity
in a place where slavery had been outlawed but where segregation,
violence, and racial inequality were still the law of the land.
Lomax's role as a liaison to white America, relating the emotion
and musical virtuosity displayed by those musicians, would change
American popular music forever. Through candid conversations with
bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their
music was born, Lomax's "discerning reconstructions . . . give life
to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us
with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread" (The New
York Times Book Review). Artistic expression has always been a way
for oppressed peoples to speak truth to power, assert their
dignity, and simply live in a world rife with injustice. The Land
Where the Blues Began is an enthralling chronicle of the journey to
bring this irrepressible art out of the Delta where it began and
into the ears of every American.
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