Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination of early popular blues, Peter C. Muir traces the genre's early history and the highly creative interplay between folk and popular forms, focusing especially on the roles W. C. Handy played in both blues music and the music business.
Long Lost Blues exposes for the first time the full scope and importance of early popular...
Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but ...
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork s significance, origins and legacies. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional...
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art...
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork s significance, origins and legacies. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional...
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art...
