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Delta Blues - The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Paperback)
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Delta Blues - The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Paperback)
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Loot Price R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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In this "expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet
thoughtful history" (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia
gives us "the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply
informative and enjoyable to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred
review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations
to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy
mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became
commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. Combining
extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living
musicians, and first-person accounts with "his own calm,
argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of
Delta blues" (New York Times), this engrossing narrative is
flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure
"an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself"
(Boston Sunday Globe). Rooted in the thick-as-tar Delta soil, Delta
Blues is already "a contemporary classic in its field" (Jazz
Review).
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