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Boom's Blues: Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

Boom's Blues: Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

Verbei, Wim
Rollins, Scott

Hardcover

Series: American Made Music

Black American StudiesBlues & SoulMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1496805119
ISBN13: 9781496805119
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Mar 30 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 Jazzverbod, the decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues, providing the international world at last with an English version of the first book-length study of the blues.

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