Author: Samuel Charters
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.
The Country Blues
Author: Samuel Charters
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.
The Country Blues
Author: Samuel Charters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blues (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blues (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Country Blues Guitar
Author: Stefan Grossman
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739042816
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739042816
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.
Complete Country Blues Guitar Book
Author: Stefan Grossman
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610658736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610658736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
Author: George Mitchell
Publisher: American Made Music
ISBN: 9781617038167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi's Hill Country blues
Publisher: American Made Music
ISBN: 9781617038167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi's Hill Country blues
Country & Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless
Author: John Gindick
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9780932592088
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Simply written for those with no musical theory or playing experience, teaches the basic techniques of playing harmonica in the country and blues styles.
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9780932592088
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Simply written for those with no musical theory or playing experience, teaches the basic techniques of playing harmonica in the country and blues styles.
Workin' Man Blues
Author: Gerald W. Haslam
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052092262X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down, or otherwise told to move on. Haslam's roots go back to Oildale, in California's central valley, where he first discovered the passion for country music that infuses Workin' Man Blues. As he traces the Hollywood singing cowboys, Bakersfield honky-tonks, western-swing dance halls, "hillbilly" radio shows, and crossover styles from blues and folk music that also have California roots, he shows how country music offered a kind of cultural comfort to its listeners, whether they were oil field roustabouts or hash slingers. Haslam analyzes the effects on country music of population shifts, wartime prosperity, the changes in gender roles, music industry economics, and television. He also challenges the assumption that Nashville has always been country music's hometown and Grand Ole Opry its principal venue. The soul of traditional country remains romantically rural, southern, and white, he says, but it is also the anthem of the underdog, which may explain why California plays so vital a part in its heritage: California is where people reinvent themselves, just as country music has reinvented itself since the first Dust Bowl migrants arrived, bringing their songs and heartaches with them.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052092262X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down, or otherwise told to move on. Haslam's roots go back to Oildale, in California's central valley, where he first discovered the passion for country music that infuses Workin' Man Blues. As he traces the Hollywood singing cowboys, Bakersfield honky-tonks, western-swing dance halls, "hillbilly" radio shows, and crossover styles from blues and folk music that also have California roots, he shows how country music offered a kind of cultural comfort to its listeners, whether they were oil field roustabouts or hash slingers. Haslam analyzes the effects on country music of population shifts, wartime prosperity, the changes in gender roles, music industry economics, and television. He also challenges the assumption that Nashville has always been country music's hometown and Grand Ole Opry its principal venue. The soul of traditional country remains romantically rural, southern, and white, he says, but it is also the anthem of the underdog, which may explain why California plays so vital a part in its heritage: California is where people reinvent themselves, just as country music has reinvented itself since the first Dust Bowl migrants arrived, bringing their songs and heartaches with them.
Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics
Author: Valerie Turner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999067000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics presents accessible guitar arrangements inspired by the repertoires of Country Blues artists like Mississippi John Hurt, John Cephas, Elizabeth Cotten, Mance Lipscomb, John Jackson, Blind Willie McTell, Lead Belly, Papa Charlie Jackson, Rev. Gary Davis, Furry Lewis, and Son House. With over 20 music arrangements aimed at the beginner and intermediate levels, the songs in this book span a variety of keys, tunings, and timings, and are represented using a combination of chord charts, tablature, standard music notation, and accompanying audio. Interesting photographs, lyrics, and anecdotes round out the book and add to its charm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999067000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics presents accessible guitar arrangements inspired by the repertoires of Country Blues artists like Mississippi John Hurt, John Cephas, Elizabeth Cotten, Mance Lipscomb, John Jackson, Blind Willie McTell, Lead Belly, Papa Charlie Jackson, Rev. Gary Davis, Furry Lewis, and Son House. With over 20 music arrangements aimed at the beginner and intermediate levels, the songs in this book span a variety of keys, tunings, and timings, and are represented using a combination of chord charts, tablature, standard music notation, and accompanying audio. Interesting photographs, lyrics, and anecdotes round out the book and add to its charm.
Beyond the Crossroads
Author: Adam Gussow
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633671
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633671
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
Deep Blues
Author: Robert Palmer
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"Deep Blues" offers a concise, authoritative account of the music's Afircan beginnings, its early evolution, and its transformation from a backcountry good-time music into today's modern blues and rock and roll.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"Deep Blues" offers a concise, authoritative account of the music's Afircan beginnings, its early evolution, and its transformation from a backcountry good-time music into today's modern blues and rock and roll.