Tell the Truth Until They Bleed
ISBN: 9780988462175 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances off the page, improvises, hits all the grace notes. He knows the turfspeak of both showbiz and quality lit." --Michael Simmons, High Times "The architects and the artists, the legends and the liars, the...
"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This...
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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar
ISBN: 9780816698042 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.Like the best music documentaries, Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a few), and... Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This ... |
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Blues Hands
ISBN: 9780764349638 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through images of hands, this book conveys the strength, beauty, diversity, depth, and power of the blues, the root of all American music. It features photographs from Joseph A. Rosen's 30-plus years of adventure in blues and music photography. Included are such noted music personalities as B.B. King, Gary Clark, Jr., Buddy Guy, Al Green, Willie King, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, The Blind Boys of Alabama, James Brown. The book holds rich treasures for lovers of music, photography, and the human form. One need not be deeply versed in the blues to appreciate the beauty, strength, and...
Through images of hands, this book conveys the strength, beauty, diversity, depth, and power of the blues, the root of all American music. It features...
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Blues, How Do You Do?: Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues
ISBN: 9780472072675 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white outsider observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and disseminated, they have so far only told an American story, failing to acknowledge that in the post-war era the blues had spread far beyond the borders of the United States. As Christian O Connell shows inBlues, How Do You Do?Paul Oliver s largely neglected scholarship and the unique transatlantic...
Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white outsider observers of black American music have distorted historical truths ab...
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Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
ISBN: 9780252040085 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," he told an American customs agent at the airport, and listen he did, to the music in its many styles, and to the men and women who lived it in the city's changing blues scene. Harper's eloquent memoir conjures the smoky redoubts of men like harmonica virtuoso Big Walter Horton and pianist Sunnyland Slim. Venturing from stageside to kitchen tables to the shotgun seat of a 1973 Eldorado, Harper listens to performers and others recollect memories of...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," h...
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Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
ISBN: 9780252081576 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," he told an American customs agent at the airport, and listen he did, to the music in its many styles, and to the men and women who lived it in the city's changing blues scene. Harper's eloquent memoir conjures the smoky redoubts of men like harmonica virtuoso Big Walter Horton and pianist Sunnyland Slim. Venturing from stageside to kitchen tables to the shotgun seat of a 1973 Eldorado, Harper listens to performers and others recollect memories of...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," h...
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82,94 zł |
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
ISBN: 9781469628875 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank,...
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they sp...
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129,87 zł |
Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis
ISBN: 9780226380988 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music." Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead--who took lessons with Davis--claimed his musical ability "transcended any common notion of a bluesman." And the folklorist Alan Lomax called him "one of the really great geniuses of American instrumental music." But you won't find Davis alongside blues legends Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite almost universal...
Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without pe...
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Southern Crossroads: Georgia Blues
ISBN: 9781519624727 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ...Captures no only the rich history of the blues in Georgia but the strong and vibrant Blues scene that exists today..." - George Klein, Co-President of the Atlanta Blues Society, from the Foreword Take a journey into the rich territory of Georgia's blues history starting with the legends of the past and including many favorites of the present and the young musicians who will help secure the state's musical future. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes profiles of a plethora of musicians every blues lover should know, from Blind Willie McTell, Cutley Weaver and Barbecue Bob to living...
...Captures no only the rich history of the blues in Georgia but the strong and vibrant Blues scene that exists today..." - George Klein, Co-President...
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Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis
ISBN: 9780807844823 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work.
Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of... Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues ...
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Fallen Fret
ISBN: 9780692625163 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fallen Fret follows two Brooklyn sisters who chose Harlem edge over Times Square flash. When Chaz Russell needed a guitarist to lead his blues band, he chose Liz O'Malley who had left prison on her twenty-fifth birthday with prodigious guitar technique learned from a cellmate. Her deft string work rejuvenated Chaz's stale blues band, but when she acquired a custom guitar, the wrong people noticed. Musicians fawned when her sister Sarah entered a nightclub clutching her reporter's notebook. She could enrich a performer with a complimentary review, or extinguish a career by mentioning languid...
Fallen Fret follows two Brooklyn sisters who chose Harlem edge over Times Square flash. When Chaz Russell needed a guitarist to lead his blues band, h...
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John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville
ISBN: 9781442254428 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Lee -Sonny Boy- Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA Victor labels, Sonny Boy shaped Chicago's music scene with an innovative style that gave structure and speed to blues harmonica performance. His recording in 1937 of -Good Morning, School Girl, - followed by others made him a hit with Southern black audiences who had migrated north. Unfortunately, his popularity and recording career ended on June 1, 1948, when he was robbed and murdered in Chicago, Illinois. In 1980,...
John Lee -Sonny Boy- Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for t...
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Fastlines Blues Guitar Method Primer: Learn to solo for blues guitar with Fastlines, the combined book and audio tutor
ISBN: 9780995673205 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LOOKING TO START BLUES GUITAR SOLOING For guitarist looking to learn blues guitar, the Fastlines Blues Guitar Method Primer edition gives you the musical ideas to create improvisations, a short solo integrating some of these ideas and five backing tracks in various blues styles to jam along with. LOOKING TO START BLUES GUITAR SOLOING For guitarist looking to learn blues guitar, the Fastlines Blues Guitar Method Prime... |
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The Blues Lyric Formula
ISBN: 9781138145788 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Boom's Blues: Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
ISBN: 9781496805119 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... 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 sc... |
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The Man of Misplaced Destiny
ISBN: 9781535366243 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's now 2016. John Palmer, the founder of the world famous rock and roll group, The Jerusalem Blues Band, is looking to get back in the music industry. His band and his songs have been gone from the charts for about thirty some years. He cannot accept not being relevant in the music business any longer. He feels lost in his life and travels to California from his home state of Missouri to start his comeback. His self-esteem has been jolted slightly and he thinks of himself as The Man of Misplaced Destiny. It's this personal strife that motivates Palmer to get busy and make his dreams a...
It's now 2016. John Palmer, the founder of the world famous rock and roll group, The Jerusalem Blues Band, is looking to get back in the music industr...
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Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
ISBN: 9781469633657 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... 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...
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Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
ISBN: 9781469633664 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... 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...
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O Guia Completo Para Tocar Blues na Guitarra Livro Um - Guitarra Base
ISBN: 9781910403402 / Portugalski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. O Guia Completo Para Tocar Blues na Guitarra: Livro Um - Base (Toque Blues na Guitarra) (Volume 1) Domine Facilmente a Guitarra do Blues O Guia Completo Para Tocar Blues na Guitarra - Parte Um te da todas as ferramentas necessarias para tocar, entender e sentir a guitarra base do blues. Mais de 150 Exemplos em Audio Transcritos para Voce Entrar no Ritmo Entender musica nao se trata apenas de ler livros, por isso O Guia Completo para Tocar Blues na Guitarra conta com mais de 150 exemplos em audios gravados profissionalmente que sao transcritos em partitura e...
O Guia Completo Para Tocar Blues na Guitarra: Livro Um - Base (Toque Blues na Guitarra) (Volume 1) Domine Facilmente a Guitarra do Bl...
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O Sistema CAGED e 100 Licks de Guitarra Blues
ISBN: 9781910403419 / Portugalski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -100 Licks de Blues de Alta Qualidade- -Metodo Completo para Aprender o Braco da Guitarra- -Mais de Uma Hora de Exemplos Ao Vivo e Audios para Download GRATUITO- Cada lick e demonstrado em um exemplo individual de audio, que voce pode baixar gratuitamente em www.fundamental-changes.com Queira voce um metodo completo para aprender guitarra blues ou apenas um conjunto de 100 excelentes licks de guitarra blues, esse livro tem o que voce precisa. A maioria dos guitarristas fica presa aos mesmos padroes e desenhos de escalas por anos, incapazes de se...
-100 Licks de Blues de Alta Qualidade- -Metodo Completo para Aprender o Braco da Guitarra- -Mais de Uma Hora de Exemplos Ao Vivo e Audios para Downloa...
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97,09 zł |