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The Art of the Blues - A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age (Hardcover)
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The Art of the Blues - A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age (Hardcover)
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This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through
the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements
that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The
blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of
American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with
this unique sound has been just as varied and dynamic. There is no
better guide to this fascinating graphical world than Bill Dahl a
longtime music journalist and historian who has written liner notes
for countless reissues of classic blues, soul, R&B, and rock
albums. With his deep knowledge and incisive commentary
complementing more than three hundred and fifty lavishly reproduced
images the history of the blues comes musically and visually to
life. What will astonish readers who thumb through these pages is
the amazing range of ways that the blues have been represented
whether via album covers, posters, flyers, 78 rpm labels,
advertising, or other promotional materials. We see the blues as it
was first visually captured in the highly colorful sheet music
covers of the early twentieth century. We see striking and
hard-to-find label designs from labels big (Columbia) and small
(Rhumboogie). We see William Alexander's humorous artwork on
postwar Miltone Records; the cherished ephemera of concert and
movie posters; and Chess Records' iconic early albums designed by
Don Bronstein, which would set a new standard for modern album
cover design. What these images collectively portray is the
evolution of a distinctively American art form. And they do so in
the richest way imaginable. The result is a sumptuous book, a
visual treasury as alive in spirit as the music it so vibrantly
captures.
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