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In Search of the Blues
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ISBN10: 0465018122
ISBN13: 9780465018123
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jun 30 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780465018123
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jun 30 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippi's back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record vagrants, John and Alan Lomax, who prowled Southern penitentiaries and unearthed the rough, melancholy vocals of Leadbelly, and James McKune, a recluse whose record collection came to define the primal sounds of the Delta blues, Hamilton reveals this musical form to be the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.
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