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Boom's Blues - Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime (Hardcover)
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Boom's Blues - Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime (Hardcover)
Series: American Made Music Series
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Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank
G.Boom (1920-1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to
blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of
the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the
Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and
describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed
between Boom and jazz critic and musicologist Will Gilbert, who
worked for the Kultuurkamer during World War II and had been
charged with the task of formulating the Nazi's Jazzverbod, the
decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues
ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues,
providing the international world at last with an English version
of the first book-length study of the blues. At the end of the
1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver
for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One
manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a
then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer Frank (Frans) Boom. Its
publication, to which Oliver gave thetitle Laughing to Keep from
Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues
Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the
manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues
expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost
manuscript and the story behindits author. It only took him a
couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another
ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans
Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.
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