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Listen to the Blues! - Exploring a Musical Genre (Hardcover)
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Listen to the Blues! - Exploring a Musical Genre (Hardcover)
Series: Exploring Musical Genres
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Listen to the Blues! Exploring A Musical Genre provides an overview
of this distinctly American musical genre for fans of the blues and
curious readers alike, with a focus on 50 must-hear artists,
albums, and subgenres. Unlike other books on the blues, which tend
to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time
to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues
musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the
author references musical structure, harmony, form, and other
musical concepts, the volume avoids technical language; therefore,
it is a volume that should be of interest to the casual blues fan,
to students of blues music and its history, and to more serious
blues fans. The chapters on the impact of the blues on popular
culture and the legacy of the blues also put the genre in a broader
historical context than what is found in many books on the blues.
The book opens with a background chapter that provides an overview
of the history and structure of blues music. A substantial,
encyclopedic chapter that focuses on 50 must-hear blues musicians
follows, as does a chapter that explores the impact on popular
culture of blues music and musicians and a chapter that focuses on
the legacy of the genre. A bibliography rounds out the work.
Provides a well-rounded view of the blues genre in the 50
"must-hear" examples, some of which might not be expected Goes well
beyond the typical biographically based books on the blues in the
chapters on the impact of the blues on popular culture and the
legacy of the genre Places the genre in the context of the wider
narrative of African American life, and as an extension of African
rhetorical traditions
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