Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records

ISBN-13: 9780521269421 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 348 str.

Paul Oliver

Opis

In this innovatory new book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions issued on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s. Blues as performed on the professional stage and, later, folk blues from the South have been extensively discussed by many writers. Paul Oliver shows that this emphasis has drawn attention away from the other important vocal traditions also available on Race records: the songs of Southern rural dances, the comic and social songs and ballads of the medicine shows and traveling entertainments, and, even more neglected, the sacred vocal traditions, from the song-sermons of the Baptist and Sanctified preachers to the gospel songs of the church congregations and of the 'jack-leg' preachers and street evangelists.Over 500 artists and 700 song titles are indexed and there is a guide to reissued recordings.

Recenzje

"...fills an interesting and important gap in American musical history." Cashbox

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on the transcriptions; The half ain't never been told; An introduction; 1. Do the Bombashay; 2. Under the chicken tree; 3 The long-tailed blue; 4. If luck don't change; 5. As the eagle stirreth her nest; 6. Three ways to praise; 7. Honey in the rock; 8. Natural-born men; 9. Next week, sometime…?; Notes; Bibliography; A guide to reissued recordings; Index of song titles; Index of artists; General index.