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Drew's Blues: A Sideman's Life with the Big Bands
ISBN: 9780807124963 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,90 |
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Blues
ISBN: 9780816053100 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Popular Music, a new eight-volume set, celebrates American music by presenting a wealth of information on seven major musical branches. Each comprehensive book provides the perfect, one-stop starting point for research in each musical field. Between 300 and 500 entries in each volume cover key personalities, landmark performances and recordings, hit songs and experimental compositions, important publications, musical instruments, styles of music, social and historical issues, organizations and schools, record companies, and much more. Together, the volumes comprise a panoramic...
American Popular Music, a new eight-volume set, celebrates American music by presenting a wealth of information on seven major musical branches. Each ...
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271,48 |
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Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the Blues
ISBN: 9780820327327 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memphis, Tennessee, is a major crossroads for blues musicians, songs, and styles. Memphis is where the blues first "came to town" and established itself as a cosmopolitan performance genre, and the city has long been a center of synthesis and evolution in blues recording. This volume tells the story of the blues in Memphis through previously unpublished interviews with nine performers who helped create and sustain the music from the days before its commercial success through the early 1970s. Their attitudes, experiences, and insights impart a deeper understanding of the blues aesthetic and... Memphis, Tennessee, is a major crossroads for blues musicians, songs, and styles. Memphis is where the blues first "came to town" and established i... |
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176,97 |
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Blues and Evil
ISBN: 9780870497834 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,90 |
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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
ISBN: 9780879306137 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obrecht, editor of Guitar Player Magazine, and several other blues scholars and journalists, join forces to present a collection of pieces that introduce readers to the people behind the blues music of the post-war period. Guitarists interviewed and discussed include Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, B.B. K
Obrecht, editor of Guitar Player Magazine, and several other blues scholars and journalists, join forces to present a collection of pieces that introd...
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82,36 |
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Children of the Blues: 49 Musicians Shaping a New Blues Tradition
ISBN: 9780879307004 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers first-person recollections from a new generation of artists who applied the musical and life lessons of the fathers of the blues, stoking the 1960s blues revival that continues today. Some of these musicians, like John Hammond, Rory Block and Taj Mahal, sought out the rediscovered 1930s bluesmen at the Newport Folk Festivals. Others, like Robert Cray and Junior Watson, soaked up the west coast sounds of T-Bone Walker and Big Joe Turner in the storied ghetto clubs of Watts. Charlie Musselwhite came up on Memphis and Chicago blues, while Stevie Ray Vaughan and Marcia Ball went...
This book offers first-person recollections from a new generation of artists who applied the musical and life lessons of the fathers of the blues, sto...
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72,67 |
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Elwood's Blues: Interviews with the Blues Legends & Stars
ISBN: 9780879308094 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is an entertaining and informative collection of conversations with the legends and rising stars of blues and rock music, drawn from the popular syndicated radio series, The House of Blues Radio. Host Dan Aykroyd has interviewed over 900 blues and rock greats since 1993.
Is an entertaining and informative collection of conversations with the legends and rising stars of blues and rock music, drawn from the popular syndi...
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67,82 |
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B.B. King: There Is Always One More Time
ISBN: 9780879308438 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lives in Music series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues, B.B. King. An opening essay charts his life from childhood in the Mississippi Delta up to his first studio session. The author then takes an inside look at his distinguished career, album by album, offering a critical appraisal of each recording and a portrait of the making of each album. First-hand interviews with B.B. King, as well as producers, engineers, arrangers, and key musicians, bring these sessions to life and provide readers a context for understanding B.B. King's...
The Lives in Music series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues, B.B. King. An opening essay charts...
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72,67 |
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Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed
ISBN: 9780879308780 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alcoholic. Epileptic. Technically challenged. Described as all this and worse, Jimmy Reed nevertheless overcame these roadblocks to become perhaps the most successful R&B/pop crossover artist of the '50s. In "Big Boss Man," musicians, family members, and those whose lives Reed touched offer revealing and heart-wrenching insights into this now-revered bluesman. Although Reed's alcoholism was no secret, its effect on his musicianship is less understood -- this and more is explored in this comprehensive biography of a classic bluesman.
Alcoholic. Epileptic. Technically challenged. Described as all this and worse, Jimmy Reed nevertheless overcame these roadblocks to become perhaps the...
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cena:
87,21 |
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Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll
ISBN: 9780879309329 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists, this volume presents 15 gothic music profiles--legendary musicians and songwriters captured in moments of crisis, despair, revelation, and glory.
A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists, this volume presents 15 gothic music profiles--legendary musicians and songwrite...
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cena:
72,67 |
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Boston's Blues
ISBN: 9781403331588 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,50 |
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Encyclopedia of the Blues, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781557284525 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Mamie Smith and her seminal recording of Crazy Blues in 1920 through the standard makers Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and Blind Boy Fuller to contemporary stars such as Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, and Kenny Neal -- the musical tradition known as the blues has been long and varied. Rising out of the shared uncertainties of Reconstruction freedom thrust upon succeeding generations of African Americans in the Deep South, this musical genre has found enthusiasts and spawned new artists around the globe, giving birth, in turn, to rock-and-roll. The popular Encyclopedia of the...
From Mamie Smith and her seminal recording of Crazy Blues in 1920 through the standard makers Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and Blind Boy Ful...
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135,69 |
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Jook Right on: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
ISBN: 9781572334311 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pearson has collected a gold mine of compelling tales, organized them with convincing logic, and introduced them with the kind of penetrating insight and professional modesty that any blues scholar might do well to emulate. This is a terrific book one I know I ll use in my own teaching. Adam Gussow, author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues TraditionJook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians own words....
Pearson has collected a gold mine of compelling tales, organized them with convincing logic, and introduced them with the kind of penetrating insight ...
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184,22 |
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Jook Right on: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
ISBN: 9781572334328 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians, recording and transcribing their stories. These are stories from well-known musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Little Milton, and from more obscure artists such as Big Luck Carter, Henry Dorsey, Joseph Savage, and J. T. Adams. Pearson provides an introduction to the world of the blues...
Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected ...
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94,84 |
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Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York
ISBN: 9781572335691 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journeyman's Road offers a bold new vision of where the blues have been in the course of the twentieth century and what they have become at the dawn of the new millennium: a world music rippling with postmodern contradictions. Author Adam Gussow brings a unique perspective to this exploration. Not just an award-winning scholar and memoirist, he is an accomplished blues harmonica player, a Handy award nominee, and veteran of the international club and festival circuit. With this unusual depth of experience, Gussow skillfully places blues literature in dialogue with the music that provokes it,...
Journeyman's Road offers a bold new vision of where the blues have been in the course of the twentieth century and what they have become at the dawn o...
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121,15 |
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When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues
ISBN: 9781932559385 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from his 35 years of blues encounters, Carroll analyzes performers and nine historic blues performances--including the blues of Charlie Patton, Skip James, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and others. (Music)
Drawing from his 35 years of blues encounters, Carroll analyzes performers and nine historic blues performances--including the blues of Charlie Patton...
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127,50 |
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Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
ISBN: 9780465008810 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't been captured on location by these performers and recorders.
Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the... In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in m...
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142,88 |
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Blues Traveling : The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781604731248 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Bobby Rush, Junior... At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and K... |
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82,36 |
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Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
ISBN: 9781585446056 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs--many never before published--Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking...
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to it...
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cena:
164,83 |
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Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre
ISBN: 9780521787772 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book combines three influential and much-quoted books Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues, updated with additional new essays, which collectively confront the problem of how, when and from where the blues emerged and developed. It emphasizes the significance of the African heritage, the mutuality of much white and black music and the role of recording in consolidating the blues. Redressing some of the misconceptions that persist in writing on African-American music, it will be essential reading for all enthusiasts of blues, jazz and country music.
This book combines three influential and much-quoted books Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues, updated with additi...
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cena:
134,89 |