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In Search of the Blues (Paperback): Marybeth Hamilton

In Search of the Blues (Paperback)

Marybeth Hamilton

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In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippi's back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record vagrants, John and Alan Lomax, who prowled Southern penitentiaries and unearthed the rough, melancholy vocals of Leadbelly, and James McKune, a recluse whose record collection came to define the primal sounds of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals this musical form to be the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.

By excavating the history of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals the extent to which American culture has been shaped by white fantasies of racial difference.

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Imprint: BasicBooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2009
First published: June 2009
Authors: Marybeth Hamilton
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-01812-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues
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LSN: 0-465-01812-2
Barcode: 9780465018123

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