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Blind Joe Death's America - John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent (Hardcover)
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Blind Joe Death's America - John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent (Hardcover)
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For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has
been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of
the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing
himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white
middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his
own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers
as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and
fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally
by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than
suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns.
Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the
counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through
his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and
through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern
paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly
refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously
experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing
uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location-the place
where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of
others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes
brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a
tune, accompanied his music.
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