Jazz category: 919 books
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the...
Mississippi John Hurt
His Life, His Times, His Blues
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful,...
Love in Vain
A Vision of Robert Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg’s...
by Charles Keil
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles—success,...
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues...
by Mike Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins,...
by Julius Lester, Pete Seeger
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
From Introduction: "Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly, died in December, 1949 at the age of 64. He had come out of the deep South, settled down in a little apartment on New York's lower East Side, determined to build a successful career as a musician. Unfortunately, there was not much interest...
Buried Treasure Volume 2
Overlooked, Forgetten and Uncrowned Albums
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection.
Josh White
Society Blues
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A&R Pioneers
Architects of American Roots Music on Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson
The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
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...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Among the many legends who might be said to have invented rock ’n’ roll, few have a greater claim than Bo Diddley. This Memorial Songbook looks back at the career of this innovative blues master and includes fourteen of his most enduring songs arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.
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by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Whitney Houston, the revolutionary pop icon who changed the face of the entertainment industry and paved the way to many black singers and musicians in the 1990s and early 2000s. Before Whitney, there was not any black woman singer allowed on MTV. She was one of the first black women to receive air-time...
The Rise of Gospel Blues
The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding...